Considering the lack of an alternate scrolling mechanism, it's more about re-using proven interface genres than skeuomorphism.https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/822563076792872962 …
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To me, that actually *is* skeuomorphic: instead of being abstracted away, it resembles something known (physical).
correct, if it no longer performs the function. Like the emulation of wood joinery in stone buildings.
it appears to be an actual wheel with which one scrolls the page up and down, and borrows a format that typists would likely know.
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