[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.