Seeing that screenshot reminds me of how immensely important Scott Forstall’s influence was. That UI is beautiful, intuitive, and even fun to use. I wonder how even more wonderful it would look if it were optimized for today’s Retina displays.Peak beauty! I hope one day Apple returns to this design language even as a theme:
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Aqua was Forstall’s brainchild.
Tim Cook has made plenty of horrible decisions (horrible for users, not for shareholders) as CEO of Apple, but among his worst decisions was firing Forstall.
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