> because people accuse Apple of copying others if they take time to do something right Windows Vista had a translucent UI nearly two decades ago, that should

> because people accuse Apple of copying others if they take time to do something right Windows Vista had a translucent UI nearly two decades ago, that should be enough time for Apple to figure out if it's a good or bad idea to copy ;) There's also plenty of computer games which experiment with translucency in their UIs. If the Apple UI designers would look out of their ivory tower from time to time they could have realized that translucent UIs are an exceptionally stupid idea after the very shortlived "oooooh fancy shaders" novelty effect is over.