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Why do we devs need Android?
Most apps I build just display shit. They show prompts to the user to guide them through what I want them too.
I can't remember ever needing to implement some high frequency data processing onboard and even so. Webassembly and PWAs are getting better pretty dang fast (isn't figma a 100% wasm-pwa?) so if I actually needed those I could have those.
The last remnants of what a program could do on bare metal is like LLMs and visual processing. I'd also rather have those in a standalone app but soon we're gonna get some sort of WebNPU standard and (well) I might as well process images in webassembly (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ
Like imo browsers are becoming virtual machines with (what amounts to) an undefinably infinite app store.
When I freelance as an app developer I always encourage my clients to go the PWA route and then I wrap a PWA runner for the app stores because they only want to be on the app stores for marketing purposes and bc users are used to it.
Because that's all that these OSs are, just UI's wrapping a browser (in my humble opinion).
You need android because that's what the majority of smartphones on this planet run.