alt Hacker NewsIt doesn't matter that different platforms have different standards, as long as applications on any given platform are mostly consistent.
I don't care if your app looks different on Windows, because I'm on a Mac. I care that it behaves like a Mac application, and the muscle memory I have from all my other Mac apps also works on yours.
If you say that too loud, the “but my brands unique UI supersedes your functional requirements” people will emerge, screeching, from the woodwork!
I can’t prove it, but I just know they’re the ones who live their lives one NPS score at a time, and must think that we operate our software, being thankful for every custom animation that they force us to sit through on their otherwise broken and unimportant software.