Not just you. I have similar sentiments, if not exactly the same. To me, the ipod was a double-edged sword, because I felt like it introduced, or at least rein

Not just you. I have similar sentiments, if not exactly the same. To me, the ipod was a double-edged sword, because I felt like it introduced, or at least reinforced, many UI choices that are actually very poor. The onion parody of the keyboardless laptop (http://www.theonion.com/video/apple-introduces-revolutionary-new-laptop-with-no--14299 http://www.theonion.com/video/apple-introduces-revolutionary...) is funny precisely because it's true. I'd argue that Apple's UI choices have been popular as much for creating a cache of sophistication as for actually being useful. Binding multiple functions to the same physical element on the ipod was useful to an extent, but then they went overboard at some point. They were always more difficult to use than they should have been, and to me, they were overhyped. I own a mac which has been good to me, so I'm not totally anti-Apple. But I prefer other OS GUIs, and am often confused why Apple doesn't get called more on their over-minimalism in design. There's such a zeitgeist of minimalism in general in design that no one really questions whether it goes too far sometimes.