I could be wrong but my guess is that neither JCon or AE has internal anodizing capability, they send it to a shop that does (that shop may even make the parts) and specify blue. It was said in the old B4.1 thread that blue ano is the hardest to match. So given those two things unless JCon was using the same shop as AE the chances of the blue ano matching is really bad.

My question is how is this any different/better than the AE plate or the AVID plate? The weakness of the AE plate is that the material is all removed from one side, this is going to give it the tendency to bend as there are stresses in the part from the machining process. The AVID plate is machined clean through, in a different direction than the AE plate and not as near the motor mount. Honestly the AVID plate should be the best design of the milled plates I've seen. That said someone was just complaining of the softness of the AL used on his plate and that the screws stripped out. That's obviously not good.