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Originally Posted by itistoday
That's a pretty crappy attitude, and an insult to the developers that spent their time making them. They could have just as easily ditched the Mac market and made those application soley for Windows. You should be thankful. But don't worry, even you will use an application that doesn't "feel" Mac-like if you really need it and there are no alternatives.
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I'm not a zealot by any stretch of the imagination, and I DO use cross-platform applications with crappy GUI implementations, but ONLY when there is no truly Mac-native alternative. (Oh, and I won't pay money for anything unless it uses a proper Mac interface. If there is no alternative and I need it, I'll either do without or use it on a PC).
The INSTANT a PROPER Macintosh implementation (whether cross-platform or not) comes out, I switch to it.
I don't have a problem with cross-platform development per-se... I prefer that it be done correctly, by desigining the interface SPECIFICALLY for the OS it is run on, which means separating out the GUI from the background implementation and coding it for the platform it's intended for.
The Mac user base may be small now, but it IS growing. Eventually you will need to be able to do it properly. Might as well learn how to do it now, even if you won't be using it in actual practice anytime soon.