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Has Apple ever followed the HIG when they didn't feel like it? It's a brilliant idea, coordinating UI across disparate apps from multiple companies, but I seem
by blahedo 16y ago
Has Apple ever followed the HIG when they didn't feel like it? It's a brilliant idea, coordinating UI across disparate apps from multiple companies, but I seem to recall that going all the way back to the 80s Apple has pretty freely disregarded the guidelines when they thought they had a better idea. (And at least some of the time, the "better idea" got worked into the next round of HIG, so maybe that's ok?)
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- mcav 16y agoIt's OK by me as long as Apple continues to let third-party developers do the same.
- lukifer 16y agoThis is fine for Mac apps, but Apple can kill iOS apps dead for this reason, while letting their own deviations slip through unimpeded. In general, though, I think interface guidelines are like the rules of grammar: when you understand them well enough, you understand when it's okay to break them. Whether the change to the three upper-left buttons falls into this category is somewhat subjective.