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It depends on the app. If your app is a front-end to a service you control on the back-end, it is a lot safer. Apps like Waze, Uber, Tinder, etc, are really websites accessed via their apps. If your app exists exclusively on the device, like Flappy Birds, Flashlight app, etc, it could be completely killed by Apple/Google removing it from the device. A lot of people are going with PWAs that are optimized for mobile layouts, especially since Google and Microsoft are pushing them. Apple has the most to lose from PWAs, since they mean less native Apps for Apple.
I would not be surprised if Microsoft adopts Google's Flutter, just like they are dropping IE for Chrome. If PWAs can replace 50% of mobile apps, and Flutter can replace 60% of the remaining apps, then 80% of all apps would be able to be written in cross-platform tools. That would make it a lot safer to make mobile apps.
This article shows how a company in China got a guys app removed. America is a first-to-use country, and China is a first-to-file country. So if you have a popular app, and its not registered in China, someone in China can register it, and then have Apple/Google remove yours.
Apple removed my game from the app store because some company in China made a clone, trademarked the name we were already using, and then asked Apple to take down my game.
Microsoft did the same thing to the "Lindows" version of Linux a long time ago, they sued them in America and lost, then sued them in every other country in the world until they won, which they eventually did in Luxembourg.
I would not be surprised if Microsoft adopts Google's Flutter, just like they are dropping IE for Chrome. If PWAs can replace 50% of mobile apps, and Flutter can replace 60% of the remaining apps, then 80% of all apps would be able to be written in cross-platform tools. That would make it a lot safer to make mobile apps.
This article shows how a company in China got a guys app removed. America is a first-to-use country, and China is a first-to-file country. So if you have a popular app, and its not registered in China, someone in China can register it, and then have Apple/Google remove yours.
Apple removed my game from the app store because some company in China made a clone, trademarked the name we were already using, and then asked Apple to take down my game.
Microsoft did the same thing to the "Lindows" version of Linux a long time ago, they sued them in America and lost, then sued them in every other country in the world until they won, which they eventually did in Luxembourg.