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Before you go shaming those bad, bad Chinese companies, imagine my surprise when I restored my Apple iPhone from iCloud only to find my (always set to private!) Safari back there with every tab I ever opened.

Public Service Announcement for non-lawyers:

"I have no evidence X happened": "I did it and destroyed the evidence"

"I can't remember doing X": "I did it and can't destroy the evidence"

In other words: If you catch up to me with actual evidence, I'm proven not to lie (note that in several jurisdictions, lying might be illegal, especially as a witness).

There's nothing quite like corpspeak, just my favorite:

"I'm planning to have more time with my family": "The investors or my cofounder fired me"

Make no mistake, Google isn't any better these days. We've got a pretty large app and didn't just get the app revoked but our whole freaking account suspended over minor wording issues in the meta descriptions. Note we're not exactly small with six-digit MAUs. Google doesn't care about your business either if you're not Snapchat.

With more critical services and partnerships depending on Google, we're currently choosing our battles, even though I'd love to take this out in public.

That doesn't take away that Apple still takes the crown. Over the years, we've been revoked for doing some basic app behavior, then for not doing it anymore and lastly for doing it again (sorry that I can't go into specifics).

We're not doing anything remotely shady, just basic item comparison for consumers.

If you're relying on any of the app stores for your business these days, you're screwed. Both major ecosystems are unreliable, inconsistent dictatorships by now.

It's really time to unite as app developers and take out those big anti-trust guns.