That part was implicit. Even between teams on the same project, you'll have one manager that will do (say) 1-9 out of 10, leave out 8 and the other manager will incorporate 1-7 of 10, leaving out 3, 5 and 9 for instance.

Getting everybody on the same page, even within the same project is sometimes troublesome. I know I've done projects where I had to go behind each and every programmer to make sure they followed the small things - like a 4 pixel space between all buttons for instance. Some were 6, some were 4, some were 3... some just arbitrarily placed them.

And it's like that on a lot of OS's, you just hope that you're more consistent than not - some OS's get that right, a lot don't.

If Maemo was more consistent, even with the core OS, I'd probably appreciate it more. But with my last year being steeped into UI/UX, I've started to look for things like that and they tend to irk me on some days.

Other days, I know damn well the project manager standpoint and the engineer standpoint too well to even allow myself to get too upset.

Your original post though; spot on. Forgot to say so earlier.