I think it has it's place but I mainly use it as a way to inform the user's concept of an app or a portion of an app. Example: At WePay we don't use skeuomorph

I think it has it's place but I mainly use it as a way to inform the user's concept of an app or a portion of an app. Example: At WePay we don't use skeuomorphism in the UI except for receipts and tickets, these are parts of the app that have a real world analog and we want to stress that these are the valuable results of a transaction that should be held on to. In the end you have varying degrees of metaphor in UI design, this is just one of them...