in contrast to some themes we reshare, this one could very easily have been created by Apple and released officially
the reason it wasn't is almost certainly that Apple from the Jaguar days saw the cyan buttons as part of its brand; letting users pick their own colors would dilute that brand
(you can tell it's Jaguar or something not long before or after Jaguar by the pinstripes, btw)
many people, including us, hailed the visual design of early OS X as stunning. we still think it's really very good indeed. even for a very good visual design though, the corporate incentives tug towards conformity and away from creative expression
it's just
worth noticing that, we think