I don't think you can say that the iPhone only has a "few" skeumorphic apps. At a cursory glance Clock, Calculator, Gamecenter, Recording, Notes, iTunes, and ma

I don't think you can say that the iPhone only has a "few" skeumorphic apps. At a cursory glance Clock, Calculator, Gamecenter, Recording, Notes, iTunes, and many more fall under the skeumorphic category. This is the majority of the apps included with the iPhone when you first boot it up. I'm not saying Apple doesn't have a minimalistic design sense elsewhere (e.g. OSX), but you have to admit that skeumorphism is definitely dominant on the iPhone. I think his original point is that Metro was supposed to follow a minimalistic design approach completely opposite to the skeumorphism we've seen dominating iOS, and that Google is taking that a notch higher.