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My personal view is that the three most interesting phone GUIs are iOS, WebOS and Windows Thingamajiggy 7.

They take slightly different, yet opinionated approaches to the smartphone use case. I'm probably going to get flamed for it, but Android's UI to me seems to be lacking a concrete "design opinion", so to speak.

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I'll always take functionality over design. I don't care how many rounded corners a notification has, but I do care about it not demanding my immediate attention, and waiting in line like everything else.

If apple designed the most beautiful volume control menu that you've ever seen, would you give it up for hardware volume buttons?

Not sure we're talking about the same thing. Don't hardware buttons require design too?

I was probably unclear, but I meant design of the user experience, not interface chrome.

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