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by saturdaysaint 4658 days ago
Unless you're really into 'design inside baseball', these kind of comparisons are pretty moot. Sure, Nexus phones have been riding an interesting line between flat and 3 dimensional for a little while, but they've also had quite a few insecure 're-imaginings' getting there, and the Android phones %95 of people have been using are a hodge-podge of Android and Samsung/HTC/Moto too ill considered to even be worth criticism. When I say 'Android UI', absolutely nothing comes to mind because almost everyone I know uses a fairly distinct Android skin. And I don't know anyone with a Windows Phone that doesn't have a Visual Studio license.

All that to say, for all intensive purposes, iOS 7 will be the mainstream's introduction to flat UI elements. My guess is that Samsung will actually drag Android kicking and screaming further into iOS 7's "flat 3-d" model than Matthias Duarte would like.

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Lol at "And I don't know anyone with a Windows Phone that doesn't have a Visual Studio license."