I wonder how long before Apple blocks this. They seem to be pretty hostile to these types of apps and even limited Expo's ability to load projects on iOS if you weren't the direct developer[1].
Curious if Retool got explicit permission to do this.
> "Skip painful iOS and Android deployments. Ship to the App Store and Google Play Store, or as a PWA in seconds."
So it looks like this is mostly web-based and the app is just a wrapper.
Then the app store ban isn't a big deal. They just use it through the Web (PWA).
Presumably because this targets enterprise use cases it's not a threat to the App Store? Although I'm sure Apple could easily find some way to consider it to be a threat.
Not necessarily. Apple can make a specific deal with Google that go beyond the general terms of service of the App Store. This applies to any pair of other companies and any service owned by one of them. It's not different from an AGPL project offering commercial licenses for using the source code in a proprietary way.
Furthermore there are some apps that Apple can't do without to be able to sell their devices IMHO. Examples: Gmail, video streaming services, banking. If any of those apps from well entrenched incumbents won't like to play by the rules I think that Apple has to make a special deal with them or risk losing sales to Android competitors.
So it looks like this is mostly web-based and the app is just a wrapper. Then the app store ban isn't a big deal. They just use it through the Web (PWA).