Good day to you.

But sometimes the appearance-driving forces choke usability enough to leak toxic usability flaws into a shipping product. And I think, like 10.5.0’s translucent menu bar and slanty Dock, and Safari 4 Beta’s tab bar, and heavy shiny glass screens on lightweight laptops, and the Mighty Mouse, that this new Shuffle was a victim of the Apple style police defeating any semblance of common-sense usability.

Couldn’t agree more.  Seems like over the past 2 years, Apple has been making decisions that may ‘look’ cool but don’t make a damn bit of sense in terms of actual ease of use.