[tomburgs]

I've worked with Flutter, React Native, and now I'm building an app in SwiftUI.

I've found a few things in the process: 1.) Neither RN nor Flutter seems to be able to create truly native applications on iOS. I've never once seen an application made in either of them and thought it was a native iOS application. 2.) Unless your application must support both platforms, android (in an economic sense) is dead weight. I was shocked to see how bafflingly little android users contributed to our revenue. I've heard this from people in other companies as well. 3.) SwiftUI (and I assume UIKit) makes it really simple to create apps according to HiG. You can feel yourself fighting the framework whenever you deviate from what Apple wants you to do. I actually think this is a good thing.

I think Apple is doing something really smart here. They're not making SwiftUI cross platform, they're making it possible for you to re-use your business logic from your SwiftUI apps in Android apps.

The way see I see it they're saying — if you want to spend the least amount of time possible building a cross platform app use Flutter or RN. If you want to create a truly native experience on both platforms, but still re-use your core business logic, Swift is your friend.

[saretup]

> android (in an economic sense) is dead weight

Well it depends on your business model. Android has much smaller user LTV in most cases (especially in apps with no ads and only IAPs/Subscriptions), but the CPI is also smaller, so the economies of scale are different. In certain situations it happens that iOS is not profitable but android is.

[Farbklex]

What's your market? Android being financially irrelevant seems very US-centric.

[tomburgs]

Western & Northern Europe. It's not that it was a negligible share of Android users, it's that they didn't generate any meaningful revenue.