Good design should be about adopting platform standards. What do you think?

Yea, just like iTunes in Windows

Yeah, I really don't like it. They should adopt the platform standards like they did in the past, right now this app sticks out like a sore thumb in the whole iOS ecosystem.

I do like Material Design. But based on these two screenshots, this looks exactly like an Android app.

That's not necessarily bad, but it's... interesting that Google is changing all their products on competing devices to suit their own platform's design language. I personally don't think it fits, and could be a dangerous path to go down.

I just thank god Microsoft didn't do this with OneNote/Office apps.

It's their way of saying "This is how we do things on Android, if you didn't know. Maybe you'd like it better here". It seems a little obnoxious and maybe arrogant, but it's smart advertising.

Another commenter mentioned iTunes on Windows, what Jobs referred to as a glass of ice water in hell. The new office for Mac will have the ubiquitous Windows ribbon interface (as well as, apparently, feature parity with its Windows counterpart).

These are smart decisions, and only a minor inconvenience to most users who are presented with a little learning curve.

I feel like I'm always about to accidentally hit the floating add button.

Personally the inconsistency with iOS standards doesn't bother me so much, but I have always been UI flexible as long as it is intuitively designed.

My only real issue with is that the Floating Action Button is a "New Document" button which I will basically never use on my phone. When I use Google Drive on my phone I am looking up a document in a meeting or on the go, I don't think I have EVER created a document on my phone.

They should switch the search and new buttons.

Yep, agreed. I've written a bit about this in the past, but I think there's some strategy behind this for Google. People aren't going to stop using Google Drive, Gmail, or any of their other services just because they're not following platform conventions, and the apps themselves are very well made, they just happen to stick out like a sore thumb. The benefit for them is that it makes transitioning from iOS to Android much easier because everything is identical in all of Google's built-in apps.

So, they get away with it, but most companies can't. Or at least, don't get the benefit out of it that Google does.

They're actually pushing you to buy an Android devices as you will feel comfortable with Material Design implementation. I personally do not like actions in the top navbar, which even on my iPhone 6 is turning out they're far way too small to easily tap.

I like Material Design, and I think some of the apps look good, despite not conforming to iOS design (Chrome, Inbox).

However, these screenshots look terrible.