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Re:React Native for Android by jbigelow76 on Monday September 14, 2015 @02:27PM (#10216582)
Apple probably doesn't concern itself with any developers that don't want to be on their platform. In fact they probably find the notion so inconceivable that they wouldn't see any value in that developer's app.

Are there any "unicorn" apps that are Android only and intend to stay that way?

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Re:React Native for Android by breckenedge on Monday September 14, 2015 @04:44PM (#10217351)
Torque Pro[1] -- it's the reason I bought my first Android phone. On the flip side, there's ForeFlight[2].

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.prowl.torq... [2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/foreflight-mobile/id33325263...

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Re:React Native for Android by onedev on Monday September 14, 2015 @04:37PM (#10217322)
Absolutely and I don't think any other company could think in this way and succeed as wildly as Apple have.
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Re:React Native for Android by aianus on Monday September 14, 2015 @02:39PM (#10216656)
> Are there any "unicorn" apps that are Android only and intend to stay that way?

Chrome? Also Gmail, Google Now, and Facebook Messenger on iOS are garbage compared to Android.

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Re:React Native for Android by myko on Monday September 14, 2015 @03:06PM (#10216826)
Chrome is available on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/chrome/id15979771

It's just stuck being the Chrome around UIWebView instead of fully featured Chrome, which is unfortunate.

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Re:React Native for Android by jbigelow76 on Monday September 14, 2015 @03:01PM (#10216795)
Chrome?

I could be wrong but I am pretty sure I am typing this response in Chrome on a Windows box right now, so maybe not the best example of an Android only app.

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Re:React Native for Android by aianus on Monday September 14, 2015 @03:02PM (#10216803)
I figured we were talking in the context of Android vs. iOS.
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Re:React Native for Android by jbigelow76 on Monday September 14, 2015 @03:30PM (#10216955)
Fair enough. But even Chrome missing from iOS is mostly just an annoyance to tech types. Nobody is trading in their iPhone for a Nexus just to get Chrome, it's not the same as when Instagram was iOS only.
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Re:React Native for Android by squints on Monday September 14, 2015 @04:53PM (#10217394)
Chrome is available on the App store, friend.
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