Indeed, it's essentially a live dashboard with a built-in program launcher. It shouldn't be the thing you connect to. It's just a browsable report of the stat

Indeed, it's essentially a live dashboard with a built-in program launcher. It shouldn't be the thing you connect to. It's just a browsable report of the status of things you care about, with the UI more trying to get out of the way, and provide options, than be a "thing" in your world by itself. On that note, It probably should (and perhaps will) become more subtle over time. I'd prefer it taking the same approach as classic mac os: stay in black & white so that the user's real data is in color. They won't do that, of course, but a subdued palette could really help. Of course, then the individual widgets need to really bring home their content's presentation.