No one outside of designers had even heard the word skeumorphism until Apple had that ridiculous iCal UI change that wasted a ton of UI space on nothing but loo

No one outside of designers had even heard the word skeumorphism until Apple had that ridiculous iCal UI change that wasted a ton of UI space on nothing but looks. To be fair, it wasn’t the first or even the worst skeumorphism from Apple (arguably early versions of DVD player that were skeuomorphic to the extent that volume controls emulated a knob, that had to be circled by the mouse to change, from what i remember) but skeumorphism was used fairly benignly for the most part by Apple.