Contrived Consistency

I think the last sentence is the operative one from a UI viewpoint ...

"Brent Simmons has a series of observations about Apple’s UI consistency in Tiger over at his blog.

But I’m gonna go ahead and wonder what the hell he’s so concerned about regarding Apple’s departures from visually identically interface widgets.

So long as your widgets function as a user would expect, a developer should have a little bit of leeway as to what the exact look of their application is."   continued ...   (Via Stolen Sheep)