[cytzol]

> "it looks like the UI for these Mac apps is wildly inconsistent and each app has a very idiosyncratic idea of how it should look"

Have you used an iDevice recently? Their apps are designed around the fact that they can have the entire screen to themselves, and this sort of reasoning is bleeding out into computer application development. Some of the designs there could well be iPad apps, if it weren't for the window borders.

It's strange that when I used OS X, I was told that the proper way to do things was to use floating windows instead of having everything maximised, and now Lion is encouraging full-screen interfaces.