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That is actually a good point. Simple stuff might have become simpler.

That said I am firmly in the "we lost something between 95 and here" camp for now.

And to while it does explain why pads are different it doesn't explain why we needed to mess up the desktop in the process.

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And the market for simple stuff that is simple to do is a lot larger than the desktop market.

That's probably what we learned from the iPhone.

Simple UI is better when you have consumer grade "simple" but problems starts when complex pro app start to do "simple" and you get "simplistic stupid"

We have gained many, many features between 95 and today. Your phone does many things (mapping, notifications, cameras, various permissions/access, etc) that your computer did not in 1995.

The degree of complexity that can be adequately conveyed graphically on a single screen though is fairly constant.

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