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Apple's going to keep this platform closed, so you should write in a cross-platform framework. Don't adopt their tools or dance to their beat.

The best way to protest Apple's iPhone dominance is to write cross-platform, non-native code.

iOS should be a second class citizen.

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And let the user experience of the paying users suffer due to the completely uncanny valley and frankly second tier implementation of the cross platform toolkits?

Sorry my friend, it's the users that take the first priority and should take the first priority, not the developers or anyone else.

> Sorry my friend, it's the users that take the first priority and should take the first priority, not the developers or anyone else.

Our field, ethics, and freedom take priority over users. If they don't, you should reevaluate what you're doing.

In servicing those concerns, users will win.

The whole field of engineering is about solving real, immediate tasks that users have. What you're describing is politics.

You mean make every platform a second-class citizen?

While I agree about the non-native sentiment, I feel like your comment describes SwiftUI exactly right on both UIKit and AppKit.

For now. It’s still a first class citizen receiving the full attention & buy in of the platform to a level even Swift itself didn’t receive this early on AFAICT (iOS 14 widgets can only be written with SwiftUI).

That's an arbitrary limitation. Some of Apple's widgets are not written using SwiftUI.

Just like Swift, I foresee SwiftUI being a black sheep for a very long time.

How is this the best way of protesting? Apple doesn’t care if you write an app in React Native.

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