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Re:Google is getting left behind due to horrible UI/UX by mrweasel on Monday December 14, 2020 @03:56PM (#25423179)
Is it really that expensive though? Again, take Chat, how many developers would that really require? My guess is three to five for each platform. One skilled Mac developer would be enough to be honest, but let's say five for redundancy and speed. I fairly sure Google have more than 15 developers on the PWA.
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Re:Google is getting left behind due to horrible UI/UX by danudey on Monday December 14, 2020 @04:52PM (#25423878)
Plus given the similarities between APIs/languages, the same team of developers could likely handle iOS, iPadOS, and macOS without significantly more work than just iOS and iPadOS (assuming the developers are comfortable with all three platforms).

The majority of the underlying libraries wouldn't necessarily need to be changed; "only" the UI layer and some of the APIs (which is non-trivial, but doable).

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