Whatever "open platform" might mean Android is becoming less and less of one as Google has made huge efforts to move more and more core operating system functio

Whatever "open platform" might mean Android is becoming less and less of one as Google has made huge efforts to move more and more core operating system functionality into closed source Play Services and continues to remove developer access to many APIs in the name of security. In fact what you're advocating for in this comment is to make the platform less open. > (And it needs to be said: this is the kind of app that would never have been legal at all on any version of iOS.) Exactly, iOS is not an open platform and Google has decided they want to be more like iOS.