As follow-up to my last post, I thought I should link to this article by a mysterious figure known only as Kontra, which is perhaps the best commentary I’ve seen on the whole Mac OS skeuomorphism debate. 

It gives a fantastic rundown of real interaction problems Apple’s various software products have — the bulk of which very obviously have nothing to do with the presence or absence of skeuomorphism in the products, and will not be fixed by any aesthetic-level-only rehaul.