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Same can be asked, why do some like lock-in so much that they avoid cross platform development?

• danibx 8y ago
  The important parts of your business are in the backend, and should be accessible in json format. If you have a good api, developing native clients should be simple and fast. But what I have seen are very confident web frontend devs (and product managers too) who only consider web solutions, and dismiss native apps as being duplicated work.
  • Splines 8y ago
    > and dismiss native apps as being duplicated work. It's worse than duplicated work, it's duplicated different work.
    • chillacy 8y ago
      You got your iOS team, iOS backlog, iOS bugs, iOS build / deploy pipeline, Android team, Android backlog, Android bugs, Android build/deploy pipeline, Web team... And if you do everything right, both app experiences will be mostly the same.
  • shmerl 8y ago
    Native development can also be cross platform vs lock-in oriented. Depends on what tools are used.
  • onion2k 8y ago
    The important parts of your business are in the backend, and should be accessible in json format. In my experience the backend of most non-tech and some tech businesses is a database and some trivial validation rules. Everything important is in the design of how the data is displayed on the front end.
    • flukus 8y ago
      IME a lot of data display is backend, that's why data gets joined, aggregated, enriched, etc. The front end just formats the data, into a table, list or whatever the onscreen representation is.