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It makes a good demo. As long as it doesn't replace anything, let them reel in customers with eye-candy all they like.
What really bugs me is when these fancy demos replace superior features (the Dock), or when they marginalize superior old features by ignoring them to the point where they're much less useful than they should be (column view and "toolbar mode" in the Finder did this to the "Classic-style" modes). When Apple introduced column view, they started neglecting icon and list views, even though column view is by no means an adequate replacement.
Right now I have no real problem with Cover Flow, but I agree that it's...troubling. Apple has proven that they will sacrifice usability for glitz (or in the case of icon view, outright stubbornness).
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