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> design guidelines that was produced, and they expected native apps to follow.

It almost sounds old-fashioned in 2023 to talk about usability, affordance, and user-experience.

Part of being a native application was/is for the application to look and behave like the rest of the user interface. Standards are important because learning how to use a tool is important. Users are important.

Software has become a way to make users miserable. Oh, and while confusing them, throw some advertising at them too. ^_^



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