Quoting Cog Rusty <cog.rusty@gmail.com>:
They only "work the same" from a developer's perspective. For an end user who will be using them to submit content, different workflows can make a huge semantic difference. 'Page' (or 'static page' or 'site page', if you prefer) is for building your site while 'story' (or 'user posting' or 'posting') is for adding daily content. Of course if the developer's perspective was what mattered most, then both these default content types could be scrapped.
It was from a new user perspective that I started this thread and there is no apparent difference from the end user point of view as delivered (at least with HEAD). As delivered they "work the same" regardless of whose perspective you use. There is no mention of workflow in the content type (or should that be node type) administration page nor in the page and story descriptions. I could see no difference in the workflow when I viewed page vs story content submissions. In fact the story content type description makes little sense with regard to the story page submission form. Earnie