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This kind of thing puts a smile on my face, because it breaks the omnipotence of one company in the industry. Making the market reflect its true colors, which i

This kind of thing puts a smile on my face, because it breaks the omnipotence of one company in the industry. Making the market reflect its true colors, which is competition. In this case, it was Microsoft who got there first, and not Apple. I hope this kind of innovation is maintained, because we the users benefit from this. In so many ways. I wonder if Microsoft hadn't invested everything into flat design, would Apple had moved away from skeuomorphism so fast ? I think not. I hope to see Apple fighting for the design lead again.

DigitalJack 14y ago
You might be right, but I think the shift is because of Job's death and Forstall's ousting.
- aespinoza 14y ago
  True. But I do wondered, if Steve Jobs would have responded to Microsoft with another kind of UI other than flat. That is one thing that Jobs was great at it. Creating trends. In this scenario, Apple will be basically following the trend already started in the industry and solidified by Microsoft's push. I think Steve Job might have come up with something different than Flat.
  - Snoptic 14y ago
    Jobs was very good at ignoring existing work and claiming Apple's version was a revolutionary new invention.
wlesieutre 14y ago
I doubt Ive is going to take it as flat as Metro. It seems more likely that it will take cues from recent changes like iOS 6's App Store and Passbook, which dropped the shiny glass appearance but still have some amount of lighting on them. My personal hope is that they push it a bit flatter than that to something like what Google did in their new iOS Maps app. We'll see.
- aespinoza 14y ago
  I agree. Apple will try to do it is own thing with Falt UIs. And that is also great. The fact that things are progressing and Apple is again willing to experiment on that front is all that matters. Google will have its own take on Flat UIs as well, and that is cool too.
  - wlesieutre 14y ago
    On the other hand, 9to5mac says: The new interface is said to be “very, very flat,” according to one source. Another person said that the interface loses all signs of gloss, shine, and skeuomorphism seen across current and past versions of iOS. Another source framed the new OS as having a level of “flatness” approaching recent releases of Microsoft’s Windows Phone “Metro” UI. So maybe I'm wrong. At the very least I expect it to keep the rounded corners instead of taking things to uniformly shaded boxes.

DigitalJack 14y ago

You might be right, but I think the shift is because of Job's death and Forstall's ousting.

aespinoza 14y ago
True. But I do wondered, if Steve Jobs would have responded to Microsoft with another kind of UI other than flat. That is one thing that Jobs was great at it. Creating trends. In this scenario, Apple will be basically following the trend already started in the industry and solidified by Microsoft's push. I think Steve Job might have come up with something different than Flat.
- Snoptic 14y ago
  Jobs was very good at ignoring existing work and claiming Apple's version was a revolutionary new invention.

wlesieutre 14y ago

I doubt Ive is going to take it as flat as Metro. It seems more likely that it will take cues from recent changes like iOS 6's App Store and Passbook, which dropped the shiny glass appearance but still have some amount of lighting on them. My personal hope is that they push it a bit flatter than that to something like what Google did in their new iOS Maps app. We'll see.

aespinoza 14y ago
I agree. Apple will try to do it is own thing with Falt UIs. And that is also great. The fact that things are progressing and Apple is again willing to experiment on that front is all that matters. Google will have its own take on Flat UIs as well, and that is cool too.
- wlesieutre 14y ago
  On the other hand, 9to5mac says: The new interface is said to be “very, very flat,” according to one source. Another person said that the interface loses all signs of gloss, shine, and skeuomorphism seen across current and past versions of iOS. Another source framed the new OS as having a level of “flatness” approaching recent releases of Microsoft’s Windows Phone “Metro” UI. So maybe I'm wrong. At the very least I expect it to keep the rounded corners instead of taking things to uniformly shaded boxes.