Avoiding Apple Tax With AMD, My Flutter Studio

Fred Grott
5 min readOct 29, 2023

Apple is a trillion-dollar company as it controls its ecosystem in such a way to make all its devices disposable after 4 years through such practices as locking the ability to repair, etc.

You can do either contribute to Apple’s profit line or contribute your successful flutter studio’s future, but not both. Let me show you the AMD chipsets that have AI and power to compete with Apple’s M2 chipsets.

Flutter Way Of Avoiding On Device Instrumented Testing

Part of this is realizing how Google avoids doing a lot of builds on target platform devices. They accomplish that by:

-Non-instrumented testing including goldens

-ThemeData platform simulation combined with Widget adaptive platform constructors

-New storyboard testing API that is shared between storyboarding and non-instrumented widget testing

And of course we could do Goldens testing due to the underlying trend of the native mobile emulators and other platforms being able to run as headless either through the emulator or the flutter framework itself.

This is why I am building a Flutter DevOPS series; as is the devOPS I am covering to succeed at not paying the Apple tax in setting up a flutter studio.

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Fred Grott
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