[tonsky]

It’s a tradeoff. You either make your app native but only for one platform, or you make it look “universal” and run on all three.

[layer8]

That’s not accurate, there are cross-platform toolkits that achieve at least a close-to-native look&feel. This is very different from giving up on it entirely and going web-style UI.

[tonsky]

If they use native widgets, they usually look really bad If they just “imitate” look and feel, they usually fall very short of the real thing

Either way, it’s bad experience for the end user

[kaba0]

Do you mean the state of the art java AWT and/or Eclipse toolkit?