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From: Andrew <andrew@spam.net>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.ipad,comp.sys.mac.advocacy
Subject: An example of app development in the real world which is impossible with iOS
Date: Wed, 1 May 2024 21:52:57 -0000 (UTC)
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This recent thread is an example of how app development can happen in the
real world where one developer abandons an app, and other developers pick
it up, and then they ask for user input and they add everything people
want.

 *Android Usenet news newsreader*
  <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=51238&group=comp.mobile.android#51238>

Not only is the iPhone a dumb terminal that has nothing by way of
functionality that Android didn't have on free phones years ago, 
but you can't update iOS and then load & test an APK in the real world
like this Pia Hong Usenet newsreader was recently improved that way.

Compare the brain-dead functionality of NewsTap, for example, to
that of this PiaHong Android Usenet Newsreader recently improved.

  Name: OC-ModNewsReader 2.02.M17.apk
  Size: 3926860 bytes (3834 KiB)
  SHA256: BB05B9FD454AD8D38047484FEA338DE9FDAB056F56B66D39C114162A53883815
  <https://mega.nz/file/uYJSwBJD#3Ya4p0HpSczyt95c_MnXjyBXYqP5J_Phkz0gZ9RbkCI>

Such useful collaborative work on old apps no longer updated by their 
developers is impossible with iOS and yet - it's rather common on Android.

Which is why Android does hundreds of useful things that iOS can't do, and
yet, there's nothing whatsoever by way of functionality that iOS does that
Android doesn't already do (usually on an old free Android phone too!).

The reason iOS is brain dead compared to Android is both obvious & simple:
a. Most functionality is provided by developers
b. Apple severely restricts what developers can provide
c. Google can't. 

Even when Apple provides an app (such as the iOS camera app), there's no
competition, so again, iOS is brain dead within apps compared to Android.

The end result shows why iOS devices don't actually work in the real world.