[imjonse]

> I don't want my products looking anything like other websites.

if your product is a personal page or art/game, sure, understandable. Otherwise for apps it is beneficial to have consistent UI. It was the case for decades on desktops, it is true to a certain degree on mobile phones, and it makes users' lives easier.

[alias_neo]

I remember fighting this one well over a decade ago when management was telling us engineers that our web, Android and iOS should all look, feel and behave the same; it took some time to convince them that what you need is not consistency across platforms but consistency _within_ platforms.

Nobody on iOS cares what/how your app looks/works on Android, they care that the UX meets the expectations they have of that OS because they're switching between apps on that platform all day every day, people actually moving Android<-->iOS are few and far between, I mean literal decade(s) time-frames that people aren't switching.

[esafak]

You don't have multiple devices? I have an Android phone, an iPad, a PC, a Mac, etc.

[z3t4]

I have Windows, Linux with various desktops, iPhone, Android, and of course web browsers, and I think the apps look and behave pretty much the same across all devises. Maybe because almost all apps are web apps in a native shell. UI components it seems was a matter of performance rather then usability and developer experience!? Or it's just scripting madness gone framework insane.

[pasc1878]

Yes and they behave differently which is what I expect - they are different tools and they should behave consistently on a platform.

They should be tuned for the platform.

I can't use gestures on a PC or Mac but I can on a iPad or Android. Similarly I can control a PC or mac from a proper keybord and mouse but the usual use for iPad/Android is via a single finger.