[ii]

Flat is inevitable. Flat is practical. But, yeah, you can not make money on it yet, because you know people love what they used to look at. They don't like change.

Kazimir Malevich 100 years ago tried to tell the world about it but the world is slow.

[DonGateley]

Flat is nothing more than a cost cutting measure to "benefit" developers. They don't have to pay for or do design any more so they can be more productive in churning out more of the trivial things Steven Sinofsy and Jony Ive think really sell licenses and machines.

I feel really sorry for all the graphics design people whose work I loved and who now have to use pastel crayons with large blunt tips which of course anyone can do so puts the designers pretty much out of work. I hope this too shall pass and eye pleasing detail shall return. I just hope all the designers weren't pushed into becoming higher paid programmers never to return to esthetics.

[chenster]

Metro is just too flat, too radical UI change. It seems refreshing at first, then gets boring quickly. iOS 7 is also flat, but not completely. It incorporates subtle gradient and shade, and kept the around corners mixing best of both worlds. The bottom line, it's not a completely new UI. It's a incremental update. Users are somewhat still familiar with the new UI. OS X pretty much evolves the same way. Incremental changes seems to be much a safer bet.