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Is Flutter free software? If so, I'm sure other companies will continue to fund it's development, especially those that have products developed in it.

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My concern would be around the baked in Google services (e.g. maps, firebase, etc) no longer being supported.

I don't think Google can block a framework from accessing it's services through official APIs

Other companies rarely have the resources to spend billions on a dedicated team building a free cross-platform toolkit.

If Google abandons Flutter, companies will spend millions switching to, say, React Native

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