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No, child, your snarky comment: "Just go with something designed to be used even by the little kiddies, like iOs" demonstrated a lack of maturity ... and a lack of understanding. If anything floating around in the current OS space is "designed to be used even by the little kiddies" it's Win8's "tile" interface.

Which you apparently like.

Not being a psychologist, I won't attempt to analyze that.

Think before you type.

Good advice. I suggest you follow it.

If anything floating around in the current OS space is "designed to be used even by the little kiddies" it's Win8's "tile" interface.

Not that there is anything wrong with that.

iOS was designed to be simple, where even a two year old could play with the devices. There is no reason to make it difficult when the basic launch mechanism can work for the more difficult applications, as well as the games and simple apps.

Do people need to have a "mature" looking screen, just because it's going to be used by an adult?

People prefer not to have to think about how to use a device, if they can help it. So, if they understand a computer and it's user interface, and they then encounter a smartphone or tablet that "looks the same" on the surface, then, they won't have to be wondering about how things work. It will be the same, at first glance, and instills a feeling of confidence with the user. So, if one sees a smartphone and a tablet and a PC and a TV set, all with the same interface, then, one immediately feels confident about what they're seeing and how things might work, if they had already encountered that screen in at least one form-factors before.

Having to learn the way things work with every new device, is not user-friendly. The user interface doesn't have to look like a child's toy, but it also doesn't have to look like it needs an adult brain to decipher.

As a developer/designer/analyst/manager in IT, my biggest concern was to always "keep it simple", and to not assume that, people will eventually understand what was developed for them. Take the guesswork away from people, and reduce the amount of training they need.

If the "Start" screen in Windows 8 does look like it was designed with children in mind, then, at least half the training and guesswork is removed from the interface. An icon doesn't say much about an application, other than perhaps it's name. A live tile is an operational program's tiny interface, and one immediately understands what it's about and what it can do. There is nothing childish about that, and it's quite genius, really, as a new interface.

And, quite obviously, you are not a psychologist, because, nobody mature would dwell so much on the "kiddies" vs "mature" remarks. Sounds like you have issues.