> If "time to ship" is actually important, than why do most companies go to the work of making three separate codebases for their applications - Android, iOS, a

> If "time to ship" is actually important, than why do most companies go to the work of making three separate codebases for their applications - Android, iOS, and web? They often don't. Loads of companies ship on iOS first and Android later. There are also widely used frameworks for building your app in javascript so it is the same code on both iOS and Android just living in WebViews.