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As a winamp skin designer in my youth, I don't see these two things as really comparable.

• greenavocado 1y ago
  The sterile design language and impossibility of customizing your own software styles in an accessible way kills me
  • caseyy 1y ago
    Hah, that's a good point. When I think of it, the first Android skins, like HTC Sense (~3.0), were quite customizable. Every widget had a few stylistic variants, and I think you could even change the look of many components in the OS. Windows was very customizable until around Vista, too. I suppose people don't buy products for their theming features anymore.
  • usrusr 1y ago
    But winamp theming rested not only on the code allowing arbitrary bitmaps, it also rested on a user interface requiring zero discoverability. At some point people just knew where to click. In hindsight it appears almost surprising that there wasn't a fashion of black on black winamp skins (or maybe I just missed it)