Apple has been in love with skeuomorphism since the Apple Lisa, its first system that used an office metaphor. Apple's desktop OS uses 'files', 'folders', a 'tr

Apple has been in love with skeuomorphism since the Apple Lisa, its first system that used an office metaphor. Apple's desktop OS uses 'files', 'folders', a 'trash bin', 'labels', 'tabs', and so forth. I do agree that those don't belong in a next gen OS like iOS. They successfully got rid of the file cabinet, they have an opportunity to get rid of the other old world metaphors as well, alas they seem to prefer skeuomorphism for eye candy sake.