If Apple made a car would it have wheels like this?
From:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph
Skeuomorphic thinking may work on occasions but on the whole it is bad. Fake spokes.
Like the fake leather in apple apps. Ugh.
The calendar app does it right on the interface, it tells me it is Wednesday 25! Just right.
Jobs invented the “desktop” metaphor (Or so its said), it is a guide in a place where nothing is real.