Re:Some iPhone apps should not be written in Cocoa
by potatolicious on Monday December 15, 2008 @06:24PM
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Or how about we stop trying to develop our own beautiful UIs? One of the main attractions of the platform is that the UI is really good and consistent. The verbiage used between all apps is consistent, informative, and the imagery for icons and whatnot are also equally carried through.
So why are we mucking with it? I see more and more iPhone apps trying to completely overhaul Apple's own UI elements, to appear "unique", when all they're doing is adding to user confusion and inconsistency.
There are legitimate places where the UI must be extended - I say extend, not replace - because Apple's existing toolkit items are simply not up to the task, but IMHO one of the major failings in the iPhone dev community is failure to uphold the basics of UI standards.
So why are we mucking with it? I see more and more iPhone apps trying to completely overhaul Apple's own UI elements, to appear "unique", when all they're doing is adding to user confusion and inconsistency.
There are legitimate places where the UI must be extended - I say extend, not replace - because Apple's existing toolkit items are simply not up to the task, but IMHO one of the major failings in the iPhone dev community is failure to uphold the basics of UI standards.