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Games obviously need a UI that is directly related to playing the game. I'm not including games. But these ones seem to be different for the sake of being different:

And there's not really anything wrong with that. But one can't say that they prefer the iPhone vs something else because the apps are more consistent UI-wise and ignore the trend away from consistent user interfaces.

Then, there's something to be said for things like Sally Park, which is effectively a limited function app that doesn't have a lot of complex user interaction. A lot of these kinds of apps are commodity, so the way to differentiate is by the "prettiness" of the UI. And that's too bad in some sense, because I think usability suffers -- but maybe usability doesn't matter because, since they are one-trick pony apps, you spend more time looking at the screen than figuring out which button to hit or learning it (because the functionality is limited, not because the UI/UX is "obvious" or "consistent").

When it comes down to it, many iOS apps are do-one-thing (and hopefully do-it-well) independent apps, mainly because they don't integrate with other apps on the phone. You kind of expect standard widgets (or icons or labels for functions) (even if you think they are "ugly") on Android because of the integration. I have an Android app that adds a Flickr option to all "share via" functions on the entire phone. This isn't a standalone app that needs its own UI, and it would be dumb if it had its own UI as an independent app, partitioned off from the rest of the functionality of the device. It needs to integrate (hopefully smoothly) with everything else. When I select "share via flickr", uploading to flickr shouldn't be significantly difference in experience or widget selection than sharing with a contact, otherwise it would be too jarring. It shouldn't look like I'm going to some place else to do this, it should look like I'm sharing it without having to leave the app I found the thing I wanted to share in.