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Their wordsUsers have shown — again, I don’t need to prove this — that they don’t think about a stock Mac app vs. custom.
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Using stock Mac UI no longer saves developers work; it can mean more work than custom UI.
Their wordsBut my app NetNewsWire has a very stock Mac UI, and Liquid Glass adoption last year was a lot of work. Using stock Mac UI didn’t save us much — in fact, we had more work to do compared to the apps with more custom UI.
Their wordsWell, I still think Apple has the best collection of UI designers in the world, but, for whatever reasons, the guidance from above on how the Mac UI should look is missing the mark.
Their wordsAnd we’re left with no real reason to stick with stock Mac UI (except for wanting approval from longtime Mac people like me, and you really shouldn’t care about that at all).
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