> The only examples of successful products that use non-native UIs either (1) leverage web technologies or mature frameworks like Qt, or (2) are Blender (age 30). Apple did this with iTunes, but iTunes felt unpleasant on Windows, and people used iTunes for Windows in spite of this
Successful non-native UIs? Microsoft Office. Every single Adobe product, including the ones they got from Macromedia. I feel most professional software fall in this category. Spotify originally launched with completely custom UI. On Windows it is more difficult to name successful products that used native UI than those that did not.
I always assumed it was since the accessibility is there, but these are all Microsoft APIs after all, so they might just have implemented them on their own.
Successful non-native UIs? Microsoft Office. Every single Adobe product, including the ones they got from Macromedia. I feel most professional software fall in this category. Spotify originally launched with completely custom UI. On Windows it is more difficult to name successful products that used native UI than those that did not.