Shopify shifted its mobile app strategy from cross-platform React Native (adopted in 2020) back to native iOS/Android development, leveraging LLMs to accelerate coding and reduce maintenance overhead. They demonstrated the approach by rebuilding their flagship Shop app natively in 12 weeks, then systematized the migration using an internal tool called Helix that chunks code into checkpoint-validated segments for AI transformation. This signals that AI-assisted development is reshaping the cross-platform vs. native tradeoff—relevant for Thai SMEs evaluating tech stack decisions.