When Jonathan Ive unveiled the latest iOS and Mac OS X software, it was expected to be a massive leap in terms of design for everyone. I was fairly excited since no one had any idea about what it could look like.

By now your mind must have started speculating as to what this piece of art does. It is neither an mp3 player nor the latest Apple reveal.

The day has finally arrived for Apple to supposedly change the design language of iOS and fuel a paradigm shift in app design. For the last 5 years, Apple has carried the traditional Skeuomorphic design whether it’s the Note application or the Game Center, designs which mimics real life whether giving it a real Notepad look.

Hold the book, Chop it, you resurrect the chef in you. And for professionals, it’s time to get back to basics, i.e. – how to use a knife.

IBM may be following IDEO’s footsteps but it has certainly taken “forward thinking” from its software/hardware business to real life problem solutions. They say “God lies in Detail” and IBM’s detail-oriented idea was instrumental for city people.

“Something that would never crash, immune to weather, 3-4 times faster than Bullet Train, double the speed of an aircraft and would travel LA to San Francisco in just 30 minutes”.