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My theory was that the point of the pinstripe look was to blur the line between the UI and the hardware it was running on. Mac hardware at the time had a pinst
by ben1040 16y ago
My theory was that the point of the pinstripe look was to blur the line between the UI and the hardware it was running on.
Mac hardware at the time had a pinstripe look, just the same. Today the interface has an "aluminum" look, as do today's Macs.
- mortenjorck 16y agoI've surprisingly never seen anyone else bring this up, though I always took it for granted. I actually remember thinking, right around the time the original translucent blue iMac came out, "now they just need to make the OS look this good," my hypothesis seemingly being confirmed later by the Aqua preview with its translucent blue visual effects.