“The very fact that we’re talking about who’s going to design the icons, who’s going to design the applications and the operating system is a little bit of a concern. Because that’s not innovative,” she explains. ”What I’m interested in is not so much what they’re going to do about skeuomorphism, and those awful leather book pieces and daily planners, but a couple things that Apple didn’t hit the ground running. Like for today, Wii and Microsoft own gestural.”
“Apple kinda missed television and missed social,” she continues. “I’d be concerned that they’d miss natural user interfaces because they’re busy getting rid of skeuomorphism.”
EDIT: This is the quote from Wired that I called asinine. I don't agree with it. Wired link: http://www.wired.com/design/2013/05/what-jony-ive-needs-to-d...