[amelius]

True, except that as a developer I'd prefer to target only one architecture. Now we're forced to write apps for iOS and Android and the web separately.

[dkopi]

Interestingly, you consider "the web" a single target, and not "Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, Opera, IE" on "Linux, Windows, MacOS, IOS, Android"

And we consider android a single target, and not "Samsung, HTC, Motorola, Sony..."

We don't need android hegemony for easier development. We need cross platform development tools.

[hellofunk]

I don't think that will ever change but toolkits that let you target more than one platform will continue to improve (like Qt).

[spriggan3]

> True, except that as a developer I'd prefer to target only one architecture. Now we're forced to write apps for iOS and Android and the web separately.

How is it a bad thing ? more work == more money for you as a developer.

[adrianN]

Some people like to do interesting work instead of doing basically the same thing over and over again.

[dkopi]

More work == more developers needed to get the same job done == less productivity == lower wages.