Comment by toast0

Apple's position is different, because Apple never let you have this kind of access.

Android/Google Play review keep restricting APIs and replacing them with less capable APIs, or keeping the APIs and reducing functionality.

It works again, but I had a USB endoscope that stopped working because Google pulled APIs and took a while to replace them. I can't use location sharing in my choice of apps anymore because something on my phone blocks either app runtime, app internet access, app location, or gps decoding and I don't use it often enough to be motivated to delve through logcat to figure it out, if they even still let me use logcat?. I'm sure it helps my battery life, but it reduces the functionality of the phone.