Yes most took the pain of skinning the application to get the look and feel they wanted. The pain was soothed with iOS5's UIAppearance in a big way though. UIAppearance makes it easy because you can set the look of a component throughout the entire application. For example I only have to skin the UINavigationBar once, and the UITabBar once. Then all navBars and tabBars I use have the same look and feel.
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Yes most took the pain of skinning the application to get the look and feel they wanted. The pain was soothed with iOS5's UIAppearance in a big way though. UIAppearance makes it easy because you can set the look of a component throughout the entire application. For example I only have to skin the UINavigationBar once, and the UITabBar once. Then all navBars and tabBars I use have the same look and feel.