Skeuomorphism – I want MORE, not less!

The point is, I am not a teenager, and I have difficulty SEEING the lack of scrollbars, the grayness, and the lack of depth. If one were to follow HIG, everything in life has depth, that is how our eyes evolved, looking at those objects, not flatness. Apple is no longer following HIG.

I have not opened my computer yet, still in the box, but I know those icons are OK.

If Yosemite went the way of the iPad and iPhone, I guess that's the last one I will buy unless I can remedy the situation simply because I cannot see and it gives me a headache to work in the flatness.

Flat is NOT cool... the lack of scrollbars is also frustrating.

I came here because Flexmarketman posted but that apparently was deleted as well.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH APPLE that they cannot take criticism????

I am using 10.6 and have a new 10.8 still in the box. It may be my last Mac because of inability to see.

So making technology comfortable and pleasant to use makes for 'a fake scoop'? Apple USED TO take the time to make sure everything had a design and purpose. "The function and aesthetic" was a critical part of what drew generations of people of all ages to using an Apple product. The competition would mimic Apple and do such a bad job that it only highlighted Apple's expertise and attention to detail.

The 'boring backing core' of a painting is just as important as the presentation of the frame and the image itself, and takes skill and effort to balance all the elements properly, but even Apple seems to not want to put out the effort any more. It shows, when the current GUI image is meh, and we are cowed into accepting the framework around it, if only to sell us all on the "painting" without regard to anything else.

MacLady wrote:

WHAT IS WRONG WITH APPLE that they cannot take criticism????

Similar to those WHO CAN"T TAKE PEOPLE WHOSE OPINIONS DONT AGREE WITH THERE'S I guess.

Fully agree with you MacLady

Every bit of a picture is important, from the presentation and durability of the frame to the image itself. The backing and base are rarely considered, but are just as important too. That USED to be "the Apple way", but not bothering to care in various areas makes Apple less superior and more like MS Windows each year. (remember such MS imitations like the exact log in/user account window copy Win made years ago? Blatant and defenseless but "just coincidence" was their excuse. MS isnt copying Apple much lately though)

Change for changes sake is a waste of accomplishment and Heritage.

Apple is also being more hasty and sloppy while cutting back on attention to detail and effort, it is near impossible to conclude otherwise. They have "stopped caring about the framing and mounting" some time ago; there is no striving for a functional work of art anymore.

And telling someone to just 'downgrade to the nicer looking earlier version' is pointless, given that Apple quickly deletes older versions the moment a new one comes out. They have made it hard as possible to do things that way now.

To do something great takes effort, to make it the best only takes a bit more. The latest Finder look, folders, windows, Textedit look, Notepad and all the rest, scream to me of the least amount of effort put out to come up with something NOT GREAT. A student programmer could come up with better, and put it on someone elses platform likely, not an Apple machine. The rise of the next "Steve Jobs" will not be done on an Apple.

There is no way you will convince me, Kool aid drinkers, that pearl white font on a grey white background floating in a frameless sea with zero point of reference is a tolerable computing experience. Its brutal. Same goes for borderless colourless dimensionless buttons and icons.

What a ridiculously stupid middle finger to the world of aesthetic that was well established long before machines took over lead pencil and parchment paper. They are "teaching the wrong message" to users and creators alike.

I appreciated the previous touches. Subtle appeal improves my mindset and willingness to interact, too bad there are scores of worshipers who rally against such a human approach.

Apple USED to be the superior machine experience, but they also had Steve Jobs policing the rules of typography, aesthetics, and form WITH function. In the last years of his life, this started to change.

Blatantly stupid GUI choices are making me resent Apple. Even a teenagers eyesight will not find working with nearly single-pixel-wide fonts or guides on a backlit screen pleasant, but some wiseguy behind the scenes is making every Apple-included app default to this illogical approach any way.

"Yes John-boy, the emperor really has no clothes on but dont speak out". The current GUI, end user presentation, and design choices are pointedly flawed, bounding away from 'the best' to the land of 'semi survivable'. Wish Apple would just put its clothes back on.

Excellent post my friend. If only Apple will listen.

I Disagree entirely with your post, I have no time for cartoon notebooks with faux page bindings. If I want a toy I can buy one.

You are entitled to your opinion. You are also entitled to be wrong. Congratulations on both.

Someone once famously said "Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants, so long as it is black." I have no use for that kind of absolutism, which your values appear to originate from. I will spend my time on more relevant and interesting posts than yours from now on, thanks for the heads up.

Youre as entitled to your opinion as I am, you like cartoon interfaces and I dont. Who are you to say what is right and what is wrong.

I don't play with toys, you can if you like though.

have a nice day Mr Right

The 'cartoon' interface is the one with the line drawings. It makes the iPhone and iPad look like a toy, and the palettes fade into the background.

Why can't we have a choice?

Why don't you tell Apple that you would like the choice, they're the only ones who can give it to you, complaining here will achieve nothing in that direction, even if you feel better afterwards.

apple.com/feedback

I do every week but they don't seem to care. I have to work on computers 16 hours per day and my eyes are starting to feel it. I've never had these troubles before, but I strain to see and it's not easy.

baltwo wrote:

What? You don't want to be modern, with it, cool, and on the leading edge? It's the same mentality or outlook that considers Jackson Pollack's drug-induced paint splatterings "art."

Wow. You obviously don't respond to Pollack, but the many, many people who genuinely do appreciate what he did don't deserve to be so snidely stigmatized. I love his work on a gut level, and it has nothing to do with pretending to like something in order to be cool and modern. You might want to reserve your contempt for something you understand a little better.

I agree with you Stephen, 110%!