Well for instance the top app on fdroid is apparently "simpmusic" which would be impossible to run on an iphone because apple doesn't allow apps like it [1]... and it has 800k downloads from f-droid by itself.

To be clear though android isn't stooping to Apple levels yet. You can still do anything, it just makes it obnoxious to do so.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/musi-strikes-bac...