Steve Jobs Himself Is Responsible For Calendar and Game Center’s Hideous Skeuomorphic Designs

Cult of Mac
By John BrownleeSep 11, 2012, 6:26 am166 pts
The interior of Steve Jobs’s private Gulfstream jet is what inspired the hideousness of iCal’s faux-leather skeuomorphism. Hate skeuomorphism? Hate the way Apple’s slathering all of its apps with faux dead cow skin? Tough luck, because you know whose idea it was? Steve Jobs himself. Can’t believe it? It’s…

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