Well, obviously this is a matter of taste and certainly there are plenty of ugly apps on the store. But one of the things I really like about well-designed ICS

Well, obviously this is a matter of taste and certainly there are plenty of ugly apps on the store. But one of the things I really like about well-designed ICS+ apps is that they really feel like an integrated part of a task-centric UI and not some over-fetishized designer's extravagance. I think Apple's embrace of skeuomorphism has encouraged a flood of hyper-stylized but not particularly ergonomic apps that each exist in their own little unique aesthetic universe. For example, I'd much rather look at Tweet Lanes, even though it's pretty much a stock ICS app, than any iOS Twitter client loaded down with drop shadows and gradients and organic textures: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tweetlanes.android&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tweetlanes... If anything I'd like to see a move in the direction of Windows Phone, with an information-centric focus on clean typography and presentation of data.