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Re:App Store Arguments by gjsman-1000 on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @02:53PM (#27280784)
The Play Store cannot be compared to the iOS App Store, the Windows Store, or the macOS App Store because the iOS App Store is substantially more stringent than the Play Store in what apps are even allowed to request permission for, their sandboxing restrictions, and their privacy requirements. For example, Google gets more than 10X the data from their Android app than they get from their iOS app according to estimates. Also, Google Play only shows a request for Permissions, while iOS shows the entire list of what data is collected that is linked to you, and the data that is collected that is not linked to you, which means that the "scary privacy warnings" are substantially scarier on iOS and don't bear the comparison to the permissions-only Play Store.
Re:App Store Arguments by arvinsim on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @09:42PM (#27285156)
If they can’t make a Facebook App Store in Android with its more open platform, how much more for iOS?