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		catiopatio on Sept 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals My assumption is that the development/maintenance/support costs aren’t worth the bump in adoption/sales they’d see from doing it. It’s a large amount of expensive, ongoing work, and leveraging Apple’s native toolchain will invariably provide a better user experience.

wizofaus on Sept 27, 2023 [–]

Not if it requires me to go out and buy a machine with an OS I'm unfamiliar with. Though I gather I don't really need to interact with it directly to build Xamarin/React-native type apps (not sure about Flutter etc.)

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