Why does everyone need mobile devs? Because the web is slowly dying. I have friends\u200a\u2014\u200awell, probably ex-friends now\u200a\u2014\u200ain just about every org at Google, who used to point me at their gloomy graphs, and it doesn\u2019t matter how you slice it, the web\u2019s in a steady decline as the whole world moves to mobile.\n\n[\u2026]\n\nAnd don\u2019t even get me started about device compatibility. I have a bunch of angry 1-star reviews in the Google Play Store because my Wyvern game app randomly didn\u2019t work on LG devices, so I had to go on eBay and buy a crummy $60 LG device (as opposed to a crummy $600 LG device) to repro the bug and discover that hey, there are two Android APIs for getting mouse-click events on a scrolling list, but one of those APIs doesn\u2019t work on LG.\n\n[\u2026]\n\nSo here\u2019s what has happened: A bunch of competitors, big and small, have come out with their own replacement Android frameworks. I\u2019m not just talking about support libraries for missing functionality, though those exist aplenty. No. I am talking about full-scale replacements for Google\u2019s entire<\/em> Android development stack. Microsoft has Xamarin, Adobe has Cordova, Facebook has React Native, I mean it\u2019s crazy town.\n\n[\u2026]\n\nThe thing about these dev frameworks is that they make Google vulnerable<\/em>. Most of them are cross-platform, which means you write a single app and it runs on both iOS and Android.\n\n[\u2026]\n\nBut consider: If all mobile developers were to start using a particular cross-platform framework X, then literally any other hardware\/OS manufacturer or consortium could come along with their own competing hardware\/OS platform (like, say, Windows) that supports that framework X directly, and all the apps would run on it (probably faster, to boot), which would cut Google out entirely.<\/blockquote>\nVia Michael Love<\/a>:\nThis is a more realistic approach to how Microsoft or whoever might break the Google\/Apple app duopoly, but still requires a lot of stuff to be rewritten that it no longer makes financial sense to rewrite.\n\nApple have correctly recognized cross-platform frameworks as an existential threat, which not only explains Marzipan but also why iOS 12 tries so hard to make native apps buttery-smooth \/ clearly-superior-to-React-et-al again.<\/blockquote>\nPreviously: Airbnb Switching Away From React Native<\/a>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steve Yegge (Hacker News): Why does everyone need mobile devs? 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