Delicious Library was the start of a gilded age of Mac shareware focused on style over substance.<p>> In the past year or so, Mac development had shifted from applications providing new functionality that appeared at the dawn of OS X to applications (and ideas) built around flash and sizzle, with plenty of marketing hype to fuel the fire. his had created something of a toxic atmosphere in the Mac development world. A rift between the old school, with its plain but functional apps, and the new school of flashy but frivolous apps, has developed. ... I dubbed this new school “The Delicious Generation”.<p><a href="https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2006/11/06/the-delicious-generation/" rel="nofollow">https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2006/11/06/the-delicious-gene...</a><p>Apple adopted a similar interface for Newsstand on iOS and it seemed to be widely reviled during the pushback against skeuomorphism.