>> I don't see how it's any different to any other modern GUI in terms of
>> graphical capabilities. The icons are much bigger because it's meant for
>> much higher dpi screens and using your fingers rather than a mouse.
>
> And the reduced colour set and the all-caps sans serif text and the
> square button edges?

The buttons seem to me to be full resolution 24bit colour, and I don't 
see how all-caps and square edges are anything to do with graphical 
capability - that's just design decisions.

If you want to see what it would look like with 30-year-old graphics 
capability then take any of the screen-grabs of Win8 from Google image 
search, and convert it to 160x256x3bpp or 640x256x1bpp (the modes the 
BBC had at the time). Then scroll it across your screen at 1fps :-)

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