Unfortunately, this use of covers is purely skeuomorphic in nature...
That's what kills me about iOS7 -- they declared a jihad against bitmaps that left the Newsstand as a series of flat-shaded rectangles containing, wait for it, bitmapped magazine covers. So we get a texture-mapped image of a newspaper's front page, floating in an ugly partitioned gray space.
It never occurred to any of these rocket artists that skeuomorphism can refer to more than just nonfunctional textures, but shapes as well.
It's as if Jobs really was the only one at Apple with any aesthetic sensibilities. The trolls were right all along.
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Unfortunately, this use of covers is purely skeuomorphic in nature...
That's what kills me about iOS7 -- they declared a jihad against bitmaps that left the Newsstand as a series of flat-shaded rectangles containing, wait for it, bitmapped magazine covers. So we get a texture-mapped image of a newspaper's front page, floating in an ugly partitioned gray space.
It never occurred to any of these rocket artists that skeuomorphism can refer to more than just nonfunctional textures, but shapes as well.
It's as if Jobs really was the only one at Apple with any aesthetic sensibilities. The trolls were right all along.