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Originally Posted by turtle
I will say I'm one who appreciated the old style where everything looked real. This flat look has always sucked and always will.
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I feel like iOS 4 through 6 went too far in the textured direction. It felt gaudy. iOS 7 then went too far in the other direction, and some of its themes (translucent layers on top of each other) barely got picked up by third parties. We've kind of lost part of iOS's soul in the process, though.
Thing is, third parties had started to move to a flatter design either way, and Apple kind of capitulated. I don't think there was a possible future where iOS and Android apps continue to look quite as starkly different as iOS 6 and Android 4 did.