Nah, they don't think it's innovative. Even Apple's gotta catch up simetimes. Steve admitted this at WWDC 2003.
"I gotta be honest -- Windows (XP) beat us to this...the only feature that I can think of like that."
(Cite)
And on their page about it they explain the 3d animation cheekily: "Because We Can." Well hell, if you can, why not? I do it infrequently enough that I enjoy the cute little animation, but if it really bugs you, turn it off by changing 2 lines in an XML file.
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Nah, they don't think it's innovative. Even Apple's gotta catch up simetimes. Steve admitted this at WWDC 2003.
"I gotta be honest -- Windows (XP) beat us to this...the only feature that I can think of like that." (Cite)
And on their page about it they explain the 3d animation cheekily: "Because We Can." Well hell, if you can, why not? I do it infrequently enough that I enjoy the cute little animation, but if it really bugs you, turn it off by changing 2 lines in an XML file.