Apple has earned plenty of criticism themselves, but I do appreciate that they curate the app store with humans.
If Android were really as free and open as everyone says it is, then there would be a method built into the os to download and install apps directly through the web browser, without hunting through settings and enabling it.
As it is, this is barely better than iOS, and I’m kind of disgusted that everyone thinks it’s fine and normal as a solution.
On Android you just grab an APK or use F-Droid and it's a couple taps.
Like legit it’s like the inverse of wading through the comments section on macrumors.
If you actually do care about privacy and free speech and aren't using an iPhone because they're fashionable in your country then you should check out purism and pine64. They're the only phones I know of that are designed not to run "mobile OSes".
As for an alternative mobile OS, I would love to get my hands on Sailfish, but it’s not available for the US.
