love how it’s apparently okay for iOS apps to send you ads in push notifications now
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I don't understand why Apple has wrong defaults here. Apps should not be able to use notifications without an opt-in permission, and they shouldn't even be able to prompt for the permissions without paying Apple to review for appropriateness (& risk revocation if abused).
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How does doing the wrong thing here benefit Apple at all?? It makes their platform look like garbage just like Android. Do they allow it because enough of the notification spam leads to in-app purchases they get to take a cut from??
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iOS moved towards not requiring opt-in to send all notifications. Android 13 requires users to grant a permission before they can send any notifications which is how iOS worked before. Notification channels on Android give much better fine-grained control over notifications.
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Apps targeting Android 13 or later need to request the permission when needed. For older apps, the OS automatically requests it from the user when the app tries to send a notification. Permission works like iOS before iOS 12 but with Android's nice notification channel system.
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Definitely not iOS that has the advantage here. Android always had a nicer notification UX and it got much better with channels. iOS started allowing apps to send push notifications without user consent with iOS 12 vs. Android moving away from allowing that in August this year.
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Many of Apple's privacy, security and usability rules are only enforced via store review. iOS access control is much worse than it appears because most developers choose to follow most of the store policies. iOS App Store review/reports are getting far more lax these days anyway.
There's still more stringent app review for iOS App Store than the Play Store but they're getting closer. Apple is getting more lax and Google is getting stricter. I think the OS enforcement matters much more and for some reason Apple doesn't seem to consider that very important.
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