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Developers will design apps for Apple's foldables.

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Cross-platform is a thing.

If anyting, Apple stands to gain from what was already developed for Android.

Like https://developer.android.com/phones-tablets-foldables

Which targets iOS also: https://kotlinlang.org/compose-multiplatform

It is a thing to some extent, but there’s also a correlation of companies that do cross-platform for simple apps being cheap on development, and making it work very well on some specific platform isn’t their priority.

React Native and Flutter are way more popular than KMM/CM, and yet both have struggled to support even small iOS visual changes in a timely fashion.

This is ignoring the fact that developers who choose these cross-platform frameworks don't seem to care much about quality and general polish.

Apple will gain more from their own existing ecosystems, all five of them most developers within the Apple ecosystems if they pretty much followed all the rules most of their software will work on day one with very minimum changes, in short, they will be 90% of the way there.

Thought it will bring "desiging for foldables" onto the table which would benefit Android foldables too.

What would be REALLY vaulable would be a 141% enlarge mode. Ie since the screens are the same ratio there is no reason that when open it could just display exactly the same except larger. This is a piece of piss to program if they haven’t already put it in accessibility settings. This feature alone would drive certain demographics to this device.

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