On Apr 14, 2:27 am, Robert Casto <casto.rob...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you are an application developer, you want your application to look and > behave the same everywhere.
If you're a user, you want all your applications on one platform to look and behave the same, so that you instinctively know how to use them. And that means apps look different on different platforms, which is fine because the platforms are different (and look different), too. That's why cross-platform toolkits like AIR produce apps that look alien on every platform they run. Yes, that's cheaper for the developer but a worse user experience. So if I had to build a cross-platform app, I would build a web app for desktop/mobile and add native mobile clients where I can justify the effort (iPhone, Android). Typically, native mobile apps are a lot less feature-rich and have a lot less design items (much less graphics/ images), so they are also a lot cheaper to do. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
