It’s not skeuomorphic to books but it does replicate (sort of) what it might look like if a book were printed out a stack on index cards. The shading and the motion is definitely meant to make it feel like a physical object moving.

Isn’t that exactly how most modern websites are designed? Like look at Google’s Material design. UIs are basically cards sliding around the screen.

> it does replicate (sort of) what it might look like if a book were printed out a stack on index cards.

Except with a stack of cards (or pages) the bottom page would not be moving. The visual is more reminiscent of some sort of assembly / processing line.

One wonders if Forstall would be the Jobs type figure to return to on the back of a white horse aquihire should Apple ever fall into dire straits again.

I don’t think he’s actually working anywhere that could be bought, though.