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Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by chrisco255 on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @02:16PM (#22184661)
All this says to me is that they wanted to limit their risk exposure by doing an experiment on Android while maintaining native on iOS. Why is that hard to comprehend? Their move to RN this year should underscore the success of that experiment.
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Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by zapzupnz on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @03:34PM (#22185492)
The thing is, you can rephrase:

> by doing an experiment on Android while maintaining native on iOS

as:

> by throwing their Android users under the bus

It may be a cynical take but it's not an invalid one to take when the thrust of the rest of the paragraph comes down to "the native app's performance is so good, we couldn't dream of changing it".

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Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by chrisco255 on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @03:35PM (#22185505)
I don't know if you read the article or not but the title is very clearly: "React Native is the Future of Mobile at Shopify". So the Android experiment was successful.
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Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by ericlewis on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @04:08PM (#22185850)
Also, ios is “easy” when it comes to doing react-native. So by doing the hard one first, they have a lot more confidence in the rest.
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Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by jaxn on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @04:17PM (#22185939)
This is how I read it too. They can then run the RN app on iOS too (with some modifications I'm sure). Seems like a smart strategy. And that the jury is still out.
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Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by calcifer on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @03:39PM (#22185539)
> Why is that hard to comprehend?

Probably because that's not what the article says.

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