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The interests of platform vendors and application developers are not aligned.

Platform vendors seek to lock in developers and discourage development on competing platforms, while developers wish to leverage their skills portably across multiple platforms.

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Google isn't capable of aligning itself with its own mission, let alone locking in developers. They'll sooner release 10 programming platforms invented for 10 new messaging apps.

Google do maintain Flutter though, which is effectively a competitor.

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