Nope, its you who is manipulating the results. By your logic, if you make a Coke vs. Pepsi poll and 20% will say 'Coke', 5% will say 'Pepsi' and remaining 75% will say 'i drink both', then you will conclude that 80% hate Coke?
I didn't use the word "hate" in regards to the poll results. Thus, you clearly seem to enjoy making things up. I can conclude that the remaining 80% don't neccessaritly prefer either one. Thus, one CAN conclude that Yosemite is not a huge "improvement" or people WOULD prefer it. Your job seems to be to make people think everyone likes Yosemite's GUI. My point is that they simply should not have changed it. There was nothing wrong with the looks of Mavericks. Change just for change's sake is pointless, IMO.
Yes, I do happen to dislike the "cartoonish" look of Yosemite. This is 100% Johnny Ive's doing. It looks similar to iOS7 and 8. Scott Forestall is responsible for iOS6 and earlier. It is clear to me that my tastes are in line with Scott's vision, not Johnny's vision. OS X created a "new" look back at the start of the century that was different and appealing. I had an "Aqua" theme for Linux before I ever got a Mac. I chose the theme because it was COOL looking and new. Who ever saw an interface with a gel cap look before?
I HAVE seen flat 2D "cartoonish" interfaces before (every Lucasfilm adventure game ever made had flat cartoonish interfaces). There's nothing "new" here. It's a morphic change here, not actual innovation. It's like taking a filter in Photoshop and applying it to something that already exists. How does that compare to creating an entirely NEW theme? It doesn't. It's the difference between innovation and imitation. We invented the VCR. The Japanese bought the technology and imitated it. Some say they improved it along the way. That's what I see here. Imitation with some improvements along the way to the OS. This is no OS XI. But it's not refinement either.
It's cartoonish, which is like the difference between watching Star Wars the movie and Star Wars "Rebels". The latter is vastly inferior and catered mostly to kids. OS X is continually modified to easier to use by people who don't know how to use computers. This wouldn't be bad if they kept it also usable by computer experts (i.e. Star Wars the movie appealed to both). I can't stand to watch Rebels or The Clone Wars cartoons. They're kiddified. They don't appeal to normal adults. They only appear to fanatics and kids. OS X is heading in that direction. It's starting to only appeal to fanatics and people who can't use a Windows computer because it's too complicated.
I hope you are trying to be funny here. I never claimed that people are ecstatic about Yosemite's looks (funnily enough, according to your pool, they seem to be). My claim was that people like you, who completely dislike the new visual style, are in a clear minority. It sounds as if you were saying that there are only two camps, people who love Yosemite and people who hate it. I think its pretty obvious to assume that there is also a big group who
Yes, that's why I had six choices in the poll, because I believed there were only two camps.
does not exhibit such strong feelings. So you have to either count it in, or count it in. But please don't try to sell us that anyone who does not have a strong opinion about Yosemite is a hater.
Haters are going to hate. You appear to hate hearing that Yosemite isn't FANTASTIC looking. I see it as a big step backwards in functionality, regardless of its visual appeal due to it being harder to use at a glance. OS X's appearance reached its peak at Snow Leopard. I could live with Mavericks, but it was clearly a big step towards iOS6. Yosemite simply completes the step towards Johnny Ive's imitative cartoonish 2D attempt to destroy Scott's legacy. I believe Steve Job's vision was Scott's vision and Johnny is trying to make a name for himself by changing everything he can get away with. Tim Cook probably is for this since he's trying to get out from under Steve's shadow and prove Apple can still "innovate". Sadly, making a Mac Pro into a trash can isn't my idea of "innovation". If they could do it without killing functionality, it would be fine. But OS X is now harder to use at a glance. The GUI is starting to get in the way visually (harder to see window edges, etc.) The Mac Pro only works for a small market segment that doesn't need expansion slots, etc. all in the name of a
different LOOK rather than a functional change that has a look that supports that function.
Form should follow function, not the other way around if you want a functional product instead of a fashion product.
