CraigMac wrote:
If this were anything like aqua, it wouldn’t be revised by pretty much the entire Apple community. People would love to see aqua make a comeback. I’m not one of them, but there are fans of it and those people aren’t fans of this. Let me tell you read any forum about Apple products and you’ll find all the feedback you need to see.
Some people hated Aqua when it came out and there were the same disgruntled people making the complaints back then who do not like any change at all. The same thing happened when Jony Ivy went to the flat design in the UI to get rid of the skeuomorphic icons. You don't even need to restrict the complaints on the UI, remember when Apple got rid of the floppy disk on the computers, and then the CD drive. Oh, the uproar of complaints how Apple could do something like that.
The one thing that is consistent with all of them is Apple never went back, and competitors jumped aboard to follow suit. Even Google moved away from the skeuomorphic icons just a year later after Apple dropped it and created their own Material Design approach, which was the same thing that Apple was doing with the transparency used in the flat icons, even with the complaints they had received.
I think Steve Jobs said it best himself: “Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.”
Just wait for the next UI update where users are going to say this one was the best and complain about the next change. It happens all the time, and the cycle continues.
