I would say that designers and early adopters like change, people only like improvements. My mom is still using her 10-year-old XP machine and would hate it if it did change just for the sake of change. My Mac running TextMate also looks pretty much the same as my iBook did in 2005. Or look at the public reaction to Windows 7 vs Windows 8, or the way Apple keeps basic designs the same (only geeks can tell an iPad 1 from an iPad 4 on the subway). Apple's only products that are still changed for the sake of change are cheap MP3 players that people buy on a whim.
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> People like (eventual) change.
I would say that designers and early adopters like change, people only like improvements. My mom is still using her 10-year-old XP machine and would hate it if it did change just for the sake of change. My Mac running TextMate also looks pretty much the same as my iBook did in 2005. Or look at the public reaction to Windows 7 vs Windows 8, or the way Apple keeps basic designs the same (only geeks can tell an iPad 1 from an iPad 4 on the subway). Apple's only products that are still changed for the sake of change are cheap MP3 players that people buy on a whim.
I think the web is an outlier here...