What could be more sustainable for the development is to make updates with new features paid. People have a one time payment for the app and then pay for new features.
It’s absolutely ot perfect. But, it’s not a subscription and the dev still earn something.
I’m in Europe and see the opposite of the article. Xiaomi (incl. Poco and Redmi), Samsung (the Z flip is popular here), Pixel (is pretty popular too) and others are everywhere. People rely on third party apps in Europe so the phone doesn’t really matter anymore.
Amazing! It works great on my Pixel 8 Pro. Thank again!