For the specific context of privacy, they have had more fine-grained controls than Android since the inception of the appstore, until release of Android 6.0 where Android AFAIK has caught up.

Almost, but still not. There’s still no way to revoke android.permission.INTERNET

And if you revoke any permission to any Google apps, all of them will refuse to do shit, and you can’t even place calls without giving Google access to your location, body sensors, bluetooth, etc.

It’s one setting thinking about it: “Track me and make my search results more accurate”.