Except from Google of course, the worst offender of privacy that exists.

They put all these "privacy" features in so other companies can't do what Google already does.

If you ever tried using a Google phone without Google apps, you realize how completely dependent almost all apps are on Googles API in the background, and most of them won't work without it.

iOS will sometimes ask you even if the app has been using it (for certain permissions), and might even tell you how often the app has used it. Which is really handy.

Like, “this app has accessed your location from the background 48 times in the last month, you gave it permission, would you like to change it to ‘when using’?” Or “This app has had full access to your photos, would you like to limit it?” (Not exact wording, but you get the idea.)

Something that delighted me when I discovered it.

(Android does permissions very well too, I’m in no way trying to knock it.)

This is why, on the occasion of necessary permissions not being set, a lot of apps nowadays have a popup which tells the user something like "you need to grant permission for X because it actually lets this app do legitimate thing Y" like you just told us, with a button to click over to do the permissions grab and trigger the OS popup.

I mean, you can download one in 10 seconds if you really need one (or use Spotlight)

Stop using that app and find a different one.

Had to get a Gallery app from there last week

gstore idea of gallery app is ads in your stolen pictures

I open F-Droid like every week just to know what's new. Found some cool apps that way. I'll drop some recommendations here:

Thumb-Key

Quasseldroid

QRAlarm

Audile

more processing power than 1970's supercomputers.

Doesn't every computer and computer-like device for the last couple decades or more? Or is that the joke?

Isn't it better though? You can install it if you want.

You can use the search bar for quick calculations. That doesn’t escuses Apple from adding an calculator app on iPad! Most calculator apps have ads or are paid

Yeah. If a search engine knows you didn't know 5x(30/47)^2 they might be able to derive your SSN from that information.

Once upon a time I wrote an IRC chat bot for my friends and I that could do calculations and convert units (metric -> imperial) with a command.

My friends were impressed that I included units like furloughs, leagues and bushels.

My chatbot was just googling their request and returning the result (which, handily, was done by the google engine itself and was very easy to extract with Beautiful Soup in python). This was 15+ years ago.

This doesn't really have anything to do with your reply, just a fun memory I guess

Which obviously also has massive privacy implications.

How so? I don't know much about this stuff lol

Are you willing too share? Been looking for a good weather app.

Weather wants your location so you can get weather for where you are