"It’s so easy to mindlessly rack up in-app purchases in the iPhone that my spouse actually sat in our apartment and drained nearly $200 out of our bank account on a freemium iPhone game in December of 2019 before I even realized it was missing, which started a marital argument. And I got off light.

Many parents who let their kids go unsupervised with an iPhone ended up getting thousands of dollars of their kids feeding virtual hay to pretend horses. Tim Cook’s testimony to the judge also included that they wanted iOS to be safe to hand to children. He didn’t mention the $32.5 million settlement with the parents which was all of 7 years ago. iOS wasn’t designed to make it difficult to lose money on low quality freemium garbage that was designed to be just barely fun, and it’s still not. They may have added some window dressing safeguards as a result of the previous lawsuit, but it’s still designed to be addictive and to ruin your family time so that they can unjustly enrich themselves.

On my Android phone, I mainly stick to apps out of the F-Droid store, which are Free and Open Source. You can tip people if you find that their app helped you, but it’s not designed to be low quality and exploitative like Apple."