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Re:De-AMP: Cutting out Google and enhancing privacy by s17n on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @04:42PM (#31088791)
The more native apps you use, the stickier the ios platform is. To the extent that they don't care whether you use the web or not, it's only because they've already won in the markets that they care about and don't really view Android as a serious threat anymore.
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Re:De-AMP: Cutting out Google and enhancing privacy by scarface74 on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @04:56PM (#31088999)
Every single app on my phone besides Overcast (the podcast player) has an Android version. Hardly any non game app developer creates apps for iOS only.

Not only that, the data for those apps are on a remote server that is accessible via any other platform. Even when an app uses the standard file picker, you can choose any installed cloud storage device to save and load files - ie iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive etc.

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