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tvolkert··on Flutter 2
Flutter team member here. In Flutter, the developer consciously decides which text should be selectable (and thus copy/paste'able), so while it's true that text is not inherently selectable in a Flutter app, text that the app developer decided to make selectable will be.
tvolkert··on Flutter is the default choice for future Ubuntu apps
Flutter team member here. Yes you can! In fact, Flutter's design is layered in order to allow developers to customize it at whatever layer works for them. So in addition to being able to use Cupertino widgets out of the box (as referenced in another reply), you can also design your own widget look-and-feel if needed by extending the "widgets" library.
tvolkert··on Flutter is the default choice for future Ubuntu apps
Flutter team member here. Valid nitpick, and I can confirm that we scrub any personally identifiable information (PII) from our telemetry, so while the IP is sent over HTTP, it's not stored in our system. We even go so far as to scrub the exception message, since it may contain PII.

More information about our crash reports can be found at https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Flutter-CLI-crash-re...

tvolkert··on Flutter: the good, the bad and the ugly
Flutter team member here.

Just letting you know we haven't forgotten about these issues and will be getting to them in the coming months. The iOS text issues, specifically, have someone looking into them sooner rather than later.