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While many people on hacker news might roll their eyes at the UI design, many novice users seem to like these interfaces- it signifies to novice users that they

While many people on hacker news might roll their eyes at the UI design, many novice users seem to like these interfaces- it signifies to novice users that they can stop keeping a paper address book and paper calendar and move to the using their iPad and the web, something they might have previously only thought business or techy types did. Additionally, I don't think the functionality of these apps suffers at all from this.

cageface 15y ago
John Siracusa makes the case against these kinds of UIs well in his Lion review: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars/5 http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.a...
- ugh 15y ago
  But he is not quite as outraged and his points are a lot more subtle than your rant.
  - cageface 15y ago
    Disappointed would be a much better word to describe my feelings than outraged.