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Originally Posted by Quoth
They should not make them the same, just have the same features. The actual eink Kindle is really poor now.
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I disagree. 'Somewhat similar' should progress to 'identical' in the more common use cases, except where there are hardware accommodations to take into account. I keep reaching for the ToC icon in the upper left corner on my Kindle and on the upper right on my iPad. There can be no muscle memory until they are more the same.
Likewise when I try to remove a download from Library on my Fire with swipe left, and long press does something entirely different than on Kindle or iOS. (Don't expect swipe to remove to work on Kindle, given the hardware context.)
I'm guessing you do not use the Kindle apps much if at all, and so consistency is a source of badness (e.g. library scrolling instead of paging, list views that are not compact enough).
But except for these examples, there's no problem making a lot of other things consistent across different platforms, and it's what I would expect from a well coordinated development team. It makes it easier to develop and test and know you are successfully fulfilling the same set of use cases across the platform if the UI is consistent. And nicer for users of course.
I am more of a 'glass half full' person, and like or am agnostic about most of the changes. It just feels unfinished and rough when there are all of these arbitrary differences. I'd like to see more attention to detail.