[foolrush]

While I agree with your premise that Elementary is nothing more than a repetitive clone of a well trodden trope, I could not disagree more with the "steal" aspect.

Instead, I would suggest that any further designs should drop the privileged terms of "intuitive" and other such rubbish[1] and instead focus on designing a system that specifically meets the needs of a very particular demographic / audience.

Finally, there is little to no evidence to suggest that Picasso said that infamous line. It was likely misattributed by Mr. Jobs from a biography.

It is instead a mangling of the words of T.S. Eliot[2] that seriously detracts from Eliot's original (and relevant to this discourse) intention.

[1] http://www.uigarden.net/english/easy-intuitive-and-metaphor [2] http://nancyprager.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/good-poets-borro...