First, and I can't say this often enough, many Fugu capability requests come *directly* from top app developers.
These are flywheel effects; every app that's outside your platform creates more incentives not to develop on it. Everyone's looking sideways at what "everyone else" does.
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A further (key) subtelty: most metaplatforms are happy to optimise for the short-term. They tend to build direct pass-throughs to underlying native systems in order to quickly gain market share (see also: Cordova, Electron, etc.). These incidentally tie developers to OSes.
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That is, they become instantly FOMO-free for the low, low cost of selling platform optionality that doesn't materialize in practice.
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