Admittedly, when Apple "killed skeumorphism" it had already been killed by most of their rivals some significant time before. Microsoft already had Metro; Googl

Admittedly, when Apple "killed skeumorphism" it had already been killed by most of their rivals some significant time before. Microsoft already had Metro; Google had flat, skeumorphic-free designs for a long time but never had made a big fuss over it (until that Duarte android thing got big). Ubuntu's Unity situation is rather different.