My graphics/art/design background loves the layout, breaks the mold of what a gui is expected to be! My business/practicality side questions whether it will make it to the market in that form.
If you take time to consider it, this is a logical approach to a liquid gui. The flow from homepage to program/app is slick and polished looking with interesting animations. This is the next step in touch-screen control gui's, which are going to continue to evolve rapidly. The problem is, most people don't really want this. They still prefer a single page at a time and simple or no animation between screens. Personally, I prefer the eye-candy, if I have to deal with it on a daily basis I would rather it be visually stimulating and appealing.
If this is the actual gui and not a skin then Windows Phone 7 could very well turn the market on it's ear like the iPhone did when it was first released.
I only hope the next major release from Android heads in a similar ground-breaking direction.
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