As an alternative you need look no further than the return to clean, strong typography and unornamented clarity found to some degree in Android post 4.x and even more so in Microsoft's new designs.
Apple is ransoming the future for the present with these cheap design tricks while their competitors are busy building new design languages for the next decade. Apple's entire UI looks dated now relative to their competition.
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As an alternative you need look no further than the return to clean, strong typography and unornamented clarity found to some degree in Android post 4.x and even more so in Microsoft's new designs.
Apple is ransoming the future for the present with these cheap design tricks while their competitors are busy building new design languages for the next decade. Apple's entire UI looks dated now relative to their competition.