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We have unified metal in iTunes, unified Aqua with “bubbly” buttons in Mail, old school metal in the Finder, Aqua in TextEdit, an absolute abomination in Firefox, a bit more metal in Address book and Safari and then pure Aqua in Preview. I don’t really know what the hell to call all of these, but it’s clearly a mess.

Couldn’t agree less. The article is mostly about the inconsistent use of the toolbar toggling button, but it is also an opinion held by the author, and in some of the comments, that there shouldn’t be inconsistencies between the look of various applications.

If you had a showroom full of Audis and they were identical, except for their physical size, it would be hard even for an expert to tell them apart. But they’re not identical; they share the family resemblance so you instantly know that they are Audis, but each model has its own characteristics.

I think the current iteration of OSX is just like that actual Audi showroom; all the apps are obviously of the Mac look and feel, but you can tell them apart by their appearance when they’re exposé’d all over the screen.

Mac OS X Musings » That stupid “lozenge” button

The iLaunch runs Keynote-formatted presentations in high definition through a built-in projector while displaying a 3-D rotating image of the product. Voice-recognition software, Apple’s most advanced to date, can recite a speech highlighting the features of the device while injecting several clever digs at competitors. Should a product demonstration experience a glitch or malfunction, the iLaunch boasts a complex algorithm that can automatically produce humorous and distracting quips.

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