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by emerongi 1986 days ago
I went mad trying to find a decent voice recorder for my mom. Eventually settled on some ad-littered app, but at least it didn't request any extraneous permissions. Every other app asked for every single permission under the sun... to record voice.

The one thing I've noticed about the iOS store is that apps are more up-front. Many have a price tag attached to them, which I prefer. Android apps are all about giving you something for free and then in the back doing god knows what to make pennies off of you.

The whole ads-in-apps situation is from some sci-fi novel. Let's make screens bigger, so we can fill more of it with ads.