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Re:Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devi... by jodrellblank on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @07:02PM (#26641607)
And you can easily load PDFs and music onto an iPhone/iPad without going through the Apple store or iTunes store. So they're even and that's good enough for Kindle therefore it's good enough for iOS, right?

Oh wait, on top, iOS has an app store so you can do more, so that's a win for iOS? And the app store can have free apps on it where Apple take no money, but still review and curate for some minimum standards of quality, which is nice.

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Re:Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devi... by grishka on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @07:11PM (#26641681)
> but still review and curate for some minimum standards of quality

It would've been fine if they only reviewed apps for "quality". Unfortunately, they also review the services that apps connect to, and the policies of these services.

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