On 9 Jul 2018 13:19:15 GMT, sms wrote:
> The security on Android is abysmal. Google does not do a good job of
> screening apps plus users can side-load apps from other sources.
There's no doubt that iOS is "safer" to use than is Android.
This is just a basic fact.
If you're afraid of a chainsaw, then use a butterknife to trim trees.
But notice that the Orwellian restrictions of iOS mean that the extreely
useful app functionality that this thread speaks about, which is available
free to all Android users, is unavailable on iOS (despite nospam's spurious
unfounded unsupported claims to the contrary - where nospam is afraid to
post a link to his wholly fabricated claims of iOS app functionality).
Meanwhile, since my foundation is built upon facts, I have no problem
providing explanatory links to the powerful functionality noted in the
subject line of this thread:
New Pipe: An Open Source Take on an Android YouTube App
<
https://www.maketecheasier.com/open-source-youtube-app-android/>
NewPipe ¡V YouTube Android app with more controls and no Google
<
https://www.slashgear.com/newpipe-youtube-android-app-with-more-controls-and-no-google-20492117/>
Newpipe is a minimalist Youtube player without Google Play Services
<
https://androidcommunity.com/newpipe-is-a-minimalist-youtube-player-without-google-play-services-20160215/>
etc.
> There are major advantages to Android because there are so many useful
> apps available that have no equivalent on iOS. But security is the major
> disadvantage.
Remember the thread, from years ago, of the hundred things you can do on
Android that you can't do on iOS?
This is one of the many useful app functionality on Android not on iOS!
"Lightweight YouTube frontend ...to be used without the proprietary
YouTube-API or any of Google's (proprietary) play-services. NewPipe
only parses the YouTube website in order to gain the information it
needs." <
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/>
This is the basic math:
a. Apple severely restricts what the apps can do; Google does not
b. Developers provide users with what they think users want
c. Hence, there will *always* be far *less* app functionality on iOS.
What's interesting is that the New Pipe app described in this thread is
extremely useful and it directly negates any need for YouTube Red
subscriptions - and yet - Google knows all about New Pipe (the source code
is freely available for heaven's sake) and they do not shut it down.
NewPipe, a YouTube Downloading App
<
https://ausdroid.net/2016/02/17/newpipe-a-youtube-downloading-app/>
In fact, since the source code is available, people have taken that source
code and created New Pipe clones which are available on Google Play!
<
https://newpipe.schabi.org>
Source code for the NewPipe A lightweight Youtube frontend for Android
<
https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/>