So after your basic premise was demonstrated false, you instead just deflect to a nothing statement that couldn't be more false? "Apple is good" "no, they aren't" "for every bad app Apple let's on the platform that makes them extremely rich that they will never ban, and all the spam apps they seem un able to ban, there are definitely way more malware on the play store because Google lets people do whatever"
Which is just not true. It has permissions, app review, and the same broken financial incentives as Apple.
I don't understand how anyone defends Apple's walled thornbush garden. Sure it's in neat rows with paths and it says it's a garden. But it's designed to maximize the amount it gets out of you for Apple's benefit just like Google, to make sure you can't leave, and to make you feel like the thornbush garden of Google is worse because they use gravel for their paths instead of paved stones.
The basic premise isn’t false, you just decided it was.
Snapchat and Instagram did irreparable damage to Android’s reputation for an entire generation of people because of how relaxed Google’s restrictions were on lazy developers.
Instagram, the application that was so infamously Apple-only for a long time that there was public backlash for making an android version, when one of the main reasons for not having android app was simply that they had a small team and wanted to avoid splitting effort?
You forgot about the 10 years that the instagram app just used the camera preview for pictures (as did snapchat), and now the average person thinks Android phones have bad cameras.
That's how badly Google mishandled Android, they listened to smooth brained tech bros who thought giving developers freedom would be a good idea, and Apple has always said they would ruin the user experience. Years later that "closed" ecosystem is so good Google has to beg lawmakers to let them access it because now there's a whole generation of people who see Android as a steaming pile of garbage, because it's exactly what Google let it become to the average person.
