HACKINTOSH.ORG | Macintosh discussion forums

Comment: Google’s use of Android’s Material Design in iOS apps is dumb as well as rude

<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/google-drive-1.jpg?w=1600&h=1000#038;h=500)</div>
<p><a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/3075537/ios/google-is-making-the-same-mistake-now-that-microsoft-did-in-the-90s.html" target="_blank">Jason Snell[/url] has written an interesting piece at Macworld, berating Google for using its Material Design user-interface in iOS apps. In other words, Google ignores all the iOS conventions and instead makes its iPhone and iPad apps look exactly like Android ones. This can be seen in everything from the ‘white card on gray background’ overall design all the way down to small details like using vertical rather than horizontal dots as a menu icon.</p>
<p>He argues that Google is acting like Microsoft did back in the early 90s, suddenly making its Mac apps look and behave like Windows ones. It is, he suggests, arrogant …</p>
<p> <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2016/05/27/google-android-design-ios-apps/#more-432566" class="more-link">more…[/url]</p>
Filed under: <a href='http://9to5mac.com/category/opinion/'>Opinion[/url] Tagged: <a href='http://9to5mac.com/tag/android/'>Android[/url], <a href='http://9to5mac.com/tag/comment/'>comment[/url], <a href='http://9to5mac.com/tag/google/'>Google[/url], <a href='http://9to5mac.com/tag/ios-apps/'>iOS apps[/url], <a href='http://9to5mac.com/tag/material-design/'>material design[/url], <a href='http://9to5mac.com/tag/opinion/'>Opinion[/url] <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/9to5mac.wordpress.com/432566/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/9to5mac.wordpress.com/432566/" />[/url] <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/9to5mac.wordpress.com/432566/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/9to5mac.wordpress.com/432566/" />[/url] <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/9to5mac.wordpress.com/432566/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/9to5mac.wordpress.com/432566/" />[/url] <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/9to5mac.wordpress.com/432566/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/9to5mac.wordpress.com/432566/" />[/url] <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/9to5mac.wordpress.com/432566/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/9to5mac.wordpress.com/432566/" />[/url] <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/9to5mac.wordpress.com/432566/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/9to5mac.wordpress.com/432566/" />[/url] <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/9to5mac.wordpress.com/432566/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/9to5mac.wordpress.com/432566/" />[/url] <img alt="" border="0" src="(http://[img]http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif)[/img]?host=9to5mac.com&blog=22754319&post=432566&subd=9to5mac&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><img alt="" border="0" src="(http://[img]http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif)[/img]?host=9to5mac.com&blog=22754319&post=432566&subd=9to5mac&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><div class="feedflare">
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/9To5Mac-MacAllDay?i=V05Ql28BOEk:VaGgOAeJgtg:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img> (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/9To5Mac-MacAllDay?a=V05Ql28BOEk:VaGgOAeJgtg:D7DqB2pKExk)
</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/9To5Mac-MacAllDay/~4/V05Ql28BOEk" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

Source: Comment: Google’s use of Android’s Material Design in iOS apps is dumb as well as rude (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/9To5Mac-MacAllDay/~3/V05Ql28BOEk/)