Following the "there's much more than GFX effects in a usable UI", here's an interesting blog post:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000883.html It's not about embedded devices GUI, rather about desktop apps vs. web apps. However, mutatis mutandis, it drives another nail in the same coffin: application UIs thought in terms of classic desktop widgets lag way behind in terms of usability. Moreover, I believe there are ways to leverage the search-based API which makes google apps so ergonomic into embedded devices, provided that we can find a proper input method. Of course this input method wouldn't be Win32/OSX/GTK/KDE-like widgets, nor some clunky keyboard replacement.
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