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At least Apple made some (quite futile, remember Java apps) attempt to make the UI uniform so you could more or less expect it to work in a predictable way (sometimes) and to look a bit less ugly.

We may not like it, but it is the way things are proven to work commercially.
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Nov 5, 2018·1 min read

Uniform UIs are the enemy. Problems are not uniform, and solutions should fit their problems.

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Resident hypertext crank. Author of Big and Small Computing: Trajectories for the Future of Software. http://www.lord-enki.net

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