Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting competition and consumers

Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by encryptluks2 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @09:59PM (#26964543)

You may feel you're safer, but there is no proof that Apple implements better privacy practices than Google. There are a lot of different vendors that provide Android without Google services and you can also unlock your bootloader and install a custom ROM:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_custom_Android_distrib...

Last, Google allows you to disable their activity history and other options that may be concerning from your Google Account. Apple has very few options to limit your amount of data sharing.

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Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by fnord77 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @10:03PM (#26964567)

there is proof - recently researchers showed google phones send an order of magnitude more data to the mothership than Apple does.

Of course that's at this point in time. Tomorrow Apple could turn around and be worse.

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Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by NorwegianDude on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @11:22AM (#26970413)

Are you referring to this one that says Apple is collecting more personal details, but is communicating less than Google?

"Android sends 20x more data.."?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/android-sends-20x-mo...

Take it with a huge grain of salt, but also note that Apple sends more personal data to themself than Google according to that article. Not in the amount of bytes, but in they amount of different data send, according to the article.

I think most people would agree that fewer personal details being shared is more important than the amount of data used to communicate. So in that regard Apple is worse.

All in all, I think this whole discussion is pointless. Both are collecting as much as they can get away with and both suck when it comes to privacy.

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