I've been using an Android phone as an exploratory "how's the weather over there" test kinda sorta full time for a few days now. I'm going to write a more comprehensive report later, but let me just say this: Apple should be incredibly nervous and much, much nicer to third party iOS developers because from my (granted, limited) experience the only thing that truly sets iOS apart from Android these days is third party apps. They are simply nicer in every way on iOS, and so far I haven't seen a single native (cross platform apps are by definition equally shitty on both platforms) app on Android that was on par or better than an iOS equivalent. But apart from third party apps, I could just pick up an Android phone tomorrow and barely miss a thing. In fact there are some things on Android that I would love to see in iOS as well. So Apple should be on their hands and knees and humbly thank third party developers for their hard work. Instead they alienate devs and act as if people buy iPhones because of Apple. Morale among iOS developers is deteriorating at an ever faster pace. Apple and the iOS platform can't afford this, but I'm afraid its leadership is so far up their own buttholes that they won't realize this until it's too late.
@rene Fortunately for Apple/Unfortunately for the idea of "consequences" Android development is continually difficult in ways that tend to offset the bureaucratic difficulty of publishing through Apple. :( Apple probably assumes they don't need to be nice because they've realized the alternate territory is hostile no matter how nicely Google does/doesn't act.
(Flutter was [is?] exciting but I haven't seen a lot of evidence Google is seriously supporting it. And it has… oddnesses of its own.)
@julianwki The apps that I know are cross-platform (e.g. Amazon, the Sonos app) are really bad on both platforms. I haven't used something like Flutter myself really. I have always been firmly in the "native" camp.
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