Apple takes a lot of crap for App Store policies, but a lot of them work out well for the users. For example Apple prohibits apps from gating any features behind having permissions granted that don’t have an actual technical reason. So “give me your photos” is fine, as is “give me your photos or I won’t show you the ‘best’ picture to overlay the hamburger over for some sad memory parody”, but “give me your photos or I won’t do something that has nothing to do with your photos” isn’t allowed (not that app review always notices all cases, but frequently enough to make a profound difference). Photos is even special cased to “and if you don’t need all photos you need to let the user decide if they grant access to them all, or just some/one”.
(yeah, sure, I’m a bit of an Apple fanboy/ex-employee, but on the odd occasion they do something nice, I can point it out, right?)
(also I absolutely don’t agree with all their policies, I didn’t like the blanket 33% cut of all digital goods even before I left them)
