These aren't conservative voices, they're hate voices and should be banned. There's lots of legitimate conservative voices out there who are not being listened to. And, they're not banned either.
Apple decided many years ago that they were going to make it rich by controlling as much of their product/software as they could. In the past, when I guess they put out unique and well crafted products it worked. Today, not so much. Their stuff is garbage. Apple has continuous problems with production and have used strong-arm tactics to control what people can find out and fix on their own.
You hit the nail on the head with "In 5-10 years, native iOS apps will be as common as Win32 C apps. Apple will go kicking and screaming, keeping iOS Safari behind the curve, blocking PWA progress where they can. " Personally, I don't think (hope?) that it will take 5-10 years. Right now they have less than 80% of the market. As more and more people figure out that their products are not what they used to be that market share will become less and less. At some point it will no longer matter.
To the argument that the "sales are there" all I can say is look at the statistics. I believe it's less than 1% of all app store products (regardless of which one) make money. And, the average user goes to five apps on their phones all the time. The chances you're going to write an app that actually makes anything is between slim and none. If the user can't install your app for free you're never even going to get it installed on their phone/tablet at all.
Further, the vast number of apps in the future will be PWAs and many of those will be business oriented. As you said, programmers don't want to have to write three different sets of code (realistically only two: JS and Apple - whatever they're pushing recently). And, most of those apps will be "installed" from the web page for that SaaS or your own enterprise.
Apple is done. Stick it with a fork and take it out of the oven. Obviously, with all the dumb money they've collected over the last 10+ years they could do well without ever shipping another product. And, without a doubt, they will continue to get people to buy their products for sometime in the future. But, they will either come to the realization that they have no choice but work with MS and Google in allowing PWAs or they will become irrelevant. It will take them some time to understand that since they no longer have forward thinking management and just surround themselves with "protect our business" types. Eventually, those turkeys will be replaced (hopefully sooner rather than later - we still need competition) or Apple will become the next Oracle. No longer a player in today's world.
And for those doubters out there, don't forget, Apple was going down when they brought Jobs back the last time. Unfortunately, they have no one to go back to this time. It can, and will, happen again.
This is what's going to happen now that Ajit Pai and his band of dick heads are trying to go back to the 90s. Their next step will be to try to kill off these services. In the end, they (Ajit Pai, Verizon, Comcast, etc) will all lose. It's just a matter of months or a year. And, when they lose their customer's connection to the Internet their companies will become toast. I look forward to it. Along with Pai being escorted out of the FCC office on the day he's fired!
With these changes, especially in younger people, will hopefully come more acceptance of the other and rationality. I'm not sure that's true, but I keep up hope. I truly believe it's our only chance.
To be honest, I believe what's killing the Protestants is the new faith in wealth. When someone drives a Bentley or Porsche, lives in a huge mansion and still portrays himself as a "man of God" it's just too much to swallow. Eventually even the dumbest of folks realize that the money they give to him/her is just making that individual wealthier and they're never going to get anything. It's truly the penultimate Ponzi Scheme. Except the folks at the bottom never get back a penny! And, the Feds aren't able to go after the perps at all due to "freedom of religion."
Before you hire anyone make sure you just can't live without them and then wait longer. Before you hire your first developer read the Mythical Man Month. Yes, it's old, it still applies. And, especially today, try your best to use contractors. And, make sure you have a Work for Hire agreement!
I concur 100%. BTW, Apple doesn't pay the tax they owe in this country either due to moving IP to Ireland and other tax favorable countries. Of course, they'll just move to Panama.
I'm 62. Still excited about what I'm doing. Love the fact that I can write programs in languages that actually work (as opposed to M$ Basic back in 1980s). Hardware that doesn't fail every 10 minutes, etc. O/S that does what you expect! I plan to continue creating new apps until 65 or 70. Who knows what happens then. It keeps me going and is better than hitting a little white ball into the woods!
In ~1983 I wrote the first iteration of Sensible Solutions for O'Hanlon Computer Systems using MASM. Of course, it had to run in less than 64k. Basically, it was a VM that would run pseudo code. And, the compiler was written in ASM also.
In 1985 I wrote TAS, again using MASM. Again, a VM. The language it compiled (in both cases) was written to create business accounting applications, which I also wrote. Originally I called them Level 1, 2 and 3 where Level 2 was basic bookkeeping and Level 3 was a full blown Accounting package including invoicing, purchasing, etc.
Unfortunately, this was during the time of dBase and I got clobbered in Infoworld for not being like dBase. So, I wrote a compiler for dBase and called it dBFast. Sold a lot of copies through Egghead and others.
In all three of these we made a ton of money and, even more, created a whole group of people who became "pseudo programmers." I say pseudo because they could program in TAS, not necessarily in anything else.
I was very proud of what I did and hope there is one more language in me to make programming on the web significantly easier than it is now.
If you've never programmed in assembler I recommend it to anyone. Just try something simple. Until you do, you won't appreciate what we have today. Especially if you're running on CP/M or early DOS!