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Re:The Web Is Eating the Desktop (2017) by sofixa on Monday July 12, 2021 @01:47PM (#27813007)
> No. Users don't typically switch platforms often

Users don't switch between mobile, PC? By far the most common mobile and PC OSes, Android and Windows, look nothing alike. Using something as simple as a chat app on both in "native" modes can be a burden. I

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Re:The Web Is Eating the Desktop (2017) by ryandrake on Monday July 12, 2021 @02:35PM (#27813509)
1. Users definitely don't want consistency across mobile and desktop. Mobile interfaces displayed on a desktop look like ultra-simplified toys and desktop interfaces displayed on mobile are too dense.

2. The article/thread is about native vs. web UIs on desktop platforms so not sure how mobile is even relevant.

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Re:The Web Is Eating the Desktop (2017) by sofixa on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @02:20AM (#27818089)
> Mobile interfaces displayed on a desktop look like ultra-simplified toys and desktop interfaces displayed on mobile are too dense

I'm talking about consistency, not copy pasting. Google's Material Design is sufficiently consistent that switching between mobile and desktop ( web) is fine

> The article/thread is about native vs. web UIs on desktop platforms so not sure how mobile is even relevant

Indeed, but one of the main points for native UI on desktop is for native OS UX consistency, and my point is that i prefer app consistency cross platform over OS consistency. Especially when the most popular desktop OS changes its UX paradigm half-heartedly every few years.

Are you an Apple user per chance? Most people who seem to prefer "native" UX seem to prefer Apple's different way of doing UX, which i understand can be difficult when switching to a cross platform UI which is consistent between platforms and is closer to Windows and Linux UX than it is to Apple's.

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