Well, to be fair, iOS store launch apps all looked like the System Preferences app. It wasn't till apps went out of their way using design as a differentiator t

Well, to be fair, iOS store launch apps all looked like the System Preferences app. It wasn't till apps went out of their way using design as a differentiator that it had beautiful unique apps. Windows Phone barely gets any attention, so the apps that get written for the platform use all the stock UI widgets, making everything look boring and bland. Plus XAML has a pretty steep learning curve if you try to do anything outside of the simple templates Microsoft provides.