| >This total disregard for platform conventions does your users a disservice by making moot the effort they've spent learning how the platform operates and what to expect from UI elements and interactions. I call BS. Does Letterpress also exhibit a "total disregard for platform conventions"? Does Google Maps iOS app? Does Clear (the TODO app)? Does Paper? Even if so, the users are more than happy with them, and tons of other similar apps besides. It's not 1993 and this is not Mac Word 6.0. In iOS apps are MEANT to be visually distinct and try new interaction paradigms. Heck, even Apple has stopped advocating the blind devotion to the User Interface Guidelines document, and experiments itself with different looks (and sometimes feel) from app to app. And this has been going on for at least 5 years. Besides, this project merely adds new visual look. Underneath it uses the regular widgets (it adds Obj-C categories to change the visual appearance), so it's just a new "theme", not a new "feel". >On top of that, you have to reinvent all the native components you otherwise would get for free Errr, that's kind of the whole point. >and your app looks like an ugly odd duckling on the platform. Or like a special unique snowflake. Like Clear. Or Paper. Or tons of other apps. >Why do this? It demonstrates an insane level of condension towards your users, the platform they've chosen, and the time they've spent learning it. I only discern an insane level of pissing on others people work, that they also provide for free as open source and you can very much choose not to use it or not buy any app that uses it. That, and an insane level of self-righteousness (on this response, not on the project). |