Sure, AI-assisted developer tools can be used to generate native iOS apps, but they’re not nearly as good at this as they are at generating e.g. React, whose developer experience advantage predates the LLM wave and has only since accelerated. While Mobile Safari can run webapps quite well, and native apps can be built using React Native, those clearly aren’t strategically ideal for Apple
So iOS apps may increasingly be built using Cursor, and perhaps a larger percentage of them end up being built using React Native. And yet iPhones remain massively popular, so what’s the problem as long as they’re being built?
The wall that you’ll hit when actually trying to distribute them:
Yes to all of this. Distributing is an absolute pain in the ass.
There could be a Netlify for iOS and Android but Apple and Google won't let it happen.