I have to pick one nit with your comment ... Linux developers miss the point if they think making "something prettier" is the answer. OS X success is not about

I have to pick one nit with your comment ... Linux developers miss the point if they think making "something prettier" is the answer. OS X success is not about "pretty", not in a fonts, colors, and visual design kind of way. I'd warrant Vista is much "prettier" in that regard. What is "pretty" about OS X is the capital D design of the overall user experience. Achieving this requires deep integration of goals between developers, ui experts, product managers, and yes, visual designers. Otherwise it will only be like, shall we say, lipstick on a pig (a very tasty and fine pig, or good pet pig if you aren't into the swine flesh, at that).