They pretend to do a review to justify their 30% cartel tax.
Oh no, they review thoroughly, to make sure you don’t try to avoid the tax.
This isn't obvious, 99% of apps make multiple calls to multiple services, and these SDK's are embedded into the app. How can you tell whats legit outbound/inbound? Doing a fingerprint search for the worst culprits might help catch some, but it would likely be a game of cat and mouse.
> How can you tell whats legit outbound/inbound?
If the app isn't a web browser, none are legit?
99.9% of app on app store connect to the network for a multitude of reason, do you really think only browsers connect to the internet? Do you not have an app on your phone?
Their marketing tells you it's for protection. What they fail to omit is it's for their revenue protection - observe that as long as you do not threaten their revenue models, or the revenue models of their partners, you are allowed through. It has never been about the users or developers.