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Is looking like a generic iOS app that bad?! Especially here on HN where the sentiment is pro plain html etc. a generic iOS UI should be well received

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I’m new to HN. Why the inclination towards plainness? Is it because of performance or look or something else?

I think a lot of hackers in general, not just on Hacker News, feel like a lot of UI concerns are just bikeshedding.

What do you think might be good counter examples of this not being the case?

Maybe Instagram, Discord... I was going to say Robinhood, but the free trading might have been the real differentiator?

I think both Instagram and Discord is quite bad on the UX-front on iOS. Strangely enough Microsoft’s Outlook is quite decent while it still looks a bit distinct. It is not generally true of google’s iOS apps that I assume started using Flutter and it feels from time to time (mostly not-smooth scrolling)

I think Instagram is actually quite fabulous considering how navigating stories has become muscle memory for hundreds of millions of people. And even after they have been around for some time it is still satisfying to tap that profile pic with the ring around it.

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