> well you don't really know much about shipping native apps then do you?

I don't know about that, but I sure as hell do ship native apps. On Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android. I admittedly have never shipped a native app on BSD, but I don't imagine it's very different.

> getting them approved and updated is fucking hell and a half

Oh, so your experience is limited to iOS and the Play Store? Is that it?

> want to give away open source? too bad, pay apple. too bad, pay google

What a weird take. If you want to open source code, you can just put the code on a server and have people download it over your favourite protocol. Typically HTTP works well. On any* server.

> one of the top 10 ai apps of all time and they're still getting yanked around, can't get things going.

Oh yeah, iOS sucks. Welcome to the real world.

> a lot of ya'll weren't around and/or dont remember when you had to pay for Microsoft Visual Studios to develop windows apps

As a high schooler, I was developing for Linux. I admittedly had to pay to receive a CD-ROM with my first Linux distro, and by the minute when connecting to the Internet.

> native platforms are vicious nasty bad things, owned by massive terrible companies.

Right, so your experience is iOS, and Android with the Play Store. And then you assume that you know all platforms and can teach people.

> Qt licensing being already on the fence and only a rug-pull away from being a horrible mistake to have built to.

Sure, maybe. Good thing that in 2026 there are so many open source alternatives to build upon.