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Why the hostility towards textured windows?
Authored by: mistercow on Jan 10, '03 05:25:00PM

I don't understand why people hate the textured windows so much. Since apple introduced the metal look with QuickTime, people have complained about it. I have never actually heard a reason for people's hatred of the metal theme. People assume that everyone hates the brushed metal, yet I have always thought it looks great.

In fact, off the top of my head, I can't think of a single interface element that Apple has designed that I thought looked particularly bad.



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Why the hostility towards textured windows?
Authored by: beef on Jan 14, '03 01:51:47PM

for me, it's just personal preference.

If your furniture is mostly wood, I don't think you'd want a metallic rack/table/chair (or whatever) sitting in your living room.

I like black, I don't like red, and I can't really justify that either.



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Why the hostility towards textured windows?
Authored by: mistercow on Dec 08, '03 08:28:18PM

Point taken.

I guess there are really two things that generally bother me about it.

First, many of the people that complain about Apple's newest designs end up embracing them (and acting as though they always did) down the road, only to complain about more new designs as they come out. This may not be you of course, but it is something that I have noticed with many people.

Second, people act like it's Apple's responsibility to change away from the brushed metal look because of the vocal handful of people who don't like it.

Maybe I should be thankful that hints like this exist. I guess I'd rather have people customize their own version of Safari then have Apple take away it's coolness.

Still, it comments like "the brushed appearance suxors!" bug me, because we don't all feel that way.



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