You clearly don't know what 'insane' means and I wonder if we even read the same article. Gruber has been a very vocal critics of Apple's hard on for skeuomorp

You clearly don't know what 'insane' means and I wonder if we even read the same article. Gruber has been a very vocal critics of Apple's hard on for skeuomorphism for a long time. When he says the "timing of this trend, and the fact that iOS — and the iPhone in particular — is its leading edge, is not coincidental" he is most certainly not talking about the OS itself. This should be obvious because in the very next paragraph he says that "the whole default iOS look" is made up of "phony effects". But I guess if you're just here to get your HN rubber stamp upvotes by calling Gruber a one dimensional Apple shill you might have missed that.