Whether right or wrong, when I see "platform" the primary thing I think of is Android. Whereas "application" is more well defined. Personally of course I am aw

Whether right or wrong, when I see "platform" the primary thing I think of is Android. Whereas "application" is more well defined. Personally of course I am aware that Google is engaged in extremely aggressive tracking and data harvesting on both. But if I was an otherwise uninformed consumer I would not expect my operating system to be harvesting and exfiltrating private information about myself and my behaviors for Google's commercial gain. By contrast, that behavior is more expected of applications/apps. It's even indirectly demonstrated in app permissions, which users are in many cases required to allow.