It better not be a "Metro" inspired UI or I will have someone sledge hammer my expensive Apple gear and I'll buy a PC and install linux on it. If I wanted flat UI's, then I would have bought a bloody Windows 8 PC, windows Phone 7 and Surface tablet. I hate FLAT UIs they are a usability nightmare. Get Ive the hell away from the UI and back to hardware. He has no experience with UI design.

Time to short AAPL if iOS 7 looks like a Metro copy.

I rather think there's another way of looking at these particular tea leaves. I doubt Apple will be making things too different (they learned a bit of a lesson reverting some things in the last few MacOS releases). When people say UI it doesn't mean skeu vs metro - it means learning from some of these very same award winners to see where breakthroughs are. Look at the way AccuWx goes through the forecast, or the way Clear does lists... and in particular trying to reduce the "tunnel vision" inherent in small screen implementations. And as much as a paradigm shift as people would like you to believe, I've spend enough time with an iPad to realize there is some value to a document-friendly (no doc centered) approach - let me load files onto my device and decide what to do with them later. This whole thing about pre-planning which docs I can take with me depending on the app (should I email it? Dropbox it? Live with only iWork? I shouldn't have to worry about it ahead of time - much of the world still uses computer OSs and we should be able to cope with it "in post" as they way in the content creation business..)