Apple’s 3D desktop looks a lot like Microsoft’s Task Gallery: which looks like a lot like crap

While reading about Apple filing for a patent application for a 3D desktop I started to wonder if all the interface designers from the 1980’s have some how made a come back? I mean really, you would think after having 3D UI’s fail spectacularly on horrible Flash sites that someone would figure out that adding more crap to a interface isn’t the answer. I once worked with a programmer who who got it right: “Our job is to make the end user NOT notice we have been here.” I can only imagine a 3D interface getting in the way of everything I do everyday. The first thing most power users do when they fire up a fresh new OS is turn off all that “eye candy”. On OS X I turn off the “Magnification effect” and in Vista Aero goes bye bye. Man what are these people thinking?