Except if you’re calculating dates from a long time ago. It famously takes some liberties with leap years.

One of two things happened:

• They implemented it just now, and it’s nice of them to ask Or:
• They’ve been doing it for years, and now legal told them they need to ask

That doesn’t make it better.

The first thing a novice user learns is to slap sudo in the front if they don’t have access to do something.

If side loading is actually allowed on iOS it’s exclusively because the past few years of lawsuits forced them to, and they keep trying to block it in new ways. Android can only be equally bad as Apple at worst, because Apple is as bad as they are legally allowed to in a given jurisdiction. So picking iOS over Android over that specific issue seems odd. They get brownie points for having blocked it from the start?

Doesn’t iPhone already have pretty much the exact restrictions that are coming to Android?

The A in ADSL literally stands for “asymmetric”. If you want matching upload you’d use SDSL. But generally you don’t want that, because it sacrifices some download speed.