[rkagerer]

This is why I switched to Android 10 years ago. Unfortunately the grass isn't looking much greener over there these days.

I'd love to hear from individuals who worked at these companies whether it disgusts them as much as it does me, and ideas (from a business perspective as much as technical) on how a new platform might wrest control back into the hands of users/owners.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

In this very narrow case, the grass on the Android side is much greener: You can install your own APKs on an Android device without paying anyone at all, without having to upload anything anywhere, and without requiring any particular device to build the APK in the first place. You don't even need to touch the bootloader or root it; you just toggle a setting to allow the installation and it works.

[freedomben]

For now at least. There have been articles recently about how Google is looking to change that

[sampullman]

The Android fee is only $25, but in my experience everything around the submission process is at least 4x worse, so it evens out.

At least Apple has humans doing review and support.

[prmoustache]

But you don'have to pay to sideload your app and have it stay forever on your device.