iOS 6 and the curious choice of the colorful new status bar

Ahead of WWDC 2012 rumor had it Apple was considering a fresh coat of paint for the default iPhone interface elements (UIKit). Now that iOS 6 has been introduced, instead of a new, unifying silver, like Snow Leopard did for OS X, we've gotten several new looks, and a newly tinted status bar to go along with them.

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