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The Risk Cliff

For cross-platform, we call this the Risk Cliff. You made a decision at the base of the mountain. You’ve climbed all the way up. At this point, if where you are isn’t where you want to be, you don’t have many good options. There’s just a big cliff on the path forward.

Why the cliff? Because the fix for a cross-platform app that should have been native is a rewrite. Of both apps. That decision is usually preceded by time spent trying to tweak the cross-platform build to be good enough. Extra cost.

The Risk Cliff was a real problem years ago. Cross-platform apps really weren’t great. The quality of cross-platform tools has increased dramatically. There is still that same cliff. You’re just much less likely to need to deal with it.

Compose Multiplatform does not have that cliff.