http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news....cle&newsitemID=38611

excuse me, i've had a few beers browsing blabbermouth, but i had to giggle when reading this.
it has nothing to do with Crapple, OS X or GUI-Design, but with the thalo-theme "less is more"...

Prost

It is official thalo is illogical YNGWIE has spoken:

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"Unleash the Fury" is one of the finest albums of Malmsteen's career, and its creation is rooted in one simple, yet profound belief: "I have a philosophy: More is more, less is less. The idea that less is more is illogical."

smithz some of my metal head friends loved YNGWIE MALMSTEEN. I have not heard that name in ages. He is on tour. I haven't seen a concert in a longtime. I might just call those metal head friends of mine.

The heart of the "Less is More" paradox is what you are talking about. Paradoxes aren't logical. But they're true. Listen, if you're talking gold or diamonds, holy crap more is more, bring it on.

But when you're talking about nonsense and bloat... Meaningless bullshit, bureaucracy, doctrine, it starts to seem less illogical and make more sense.

I've always liked the Fast Food analogy. Supersizing. More junk food gives you more WHAT for your money? Hands? Right. Junk. It's really not doing you any good. It tastes much better than a simple salad, but a simple salad won't clog your arteries, make you a fat load, or blow out your gall bladder.

In the world of art, we go through phases where the visual THINGS in our life either get pared down and minimal, functional and simple... like shaker furniture, OR, they get kicked up and loaded with ornament, scrolls, gold leaf, chubby little cherubim, like Louis XVI.

The eye candy doesn't make the chair any easier to sit in or more comfortable. It actually makes you QUESTION what chairs are for? I mean are they there to sit in, or impress people?

OS X is just like that. The preponderance of eye candy is most definitely not there to make the interface easier to use. It's there to impress people. To sell them on some marketeer's idea of what computer use is all about. Based on their faulty assessment of how shallow and moronic the user base is.

Because face it, people who are impressed with eye candy over computer function are probably pretty easy to fool. Maybe they won't notice how crappy, unreliable, easy to break and slow something is if they... "oooh, lookit those gorgeous icons! Mmmmm, smooooth."