[fireattack]

Your point makes no sense. Yesterday's UX teams were making decisions for you too.

It's not like he can customize the UI in the 2012 version of Music app. He just by chance liked it like that.

[mmglr]

In the 2012 version of iTunes for iOS a user can flip the iPod Touch/iPhone horizontally to view cover flow. So I would I consider that a user choice. For everyone else, where album art did not matter, one could keep the device in vertical orientation.

[fireattack]

Fair point