> It looks "pretty" to the UI people. Buys them time to get stuff done under the hood while you are gazing upon the 'sands of time' (good old Windows hourglass

> It looks "pretty" to the UI people. Buys them time to get stuff done under the hood while you are gazing upon the 'sands of time' (good old Windows hourglass). It conditions you/me/everyone to be impatient. I opt out of all such transition effects on my phone. I prefer that the screen goes black of freezes until the next screen comes up. This way I don't get distracted by irrelevant junk (spinning wheels, hourglasses, etc.). It is crunching bits. Don't add more junk to it. Let it crunch bits without tricking me.