There really are NO free phone apps

The reason for this is why do people give you free Phone Apps? Why can they afford to do this?

The reason they can is simple. If they give you a "Free" phone app they can drill into whatever information you have on your phone and sell it to others.

So, there really are no free phone apps.

Also, Free Credit reports. These aren't "Free" either. They do this to have a copy of your credit records.

Nothing is free on the Internet. Even this blog isn't "Free". Blogs are "Sold" to the readers of those blogs in various ways. For example, an author of a blog is studied by governments and corporations to see if they can market things to them or whatever they want to know about. The Readers of blogs are studied by governments, corporations and individuals for any possible purpose you can think of both legally and illegally. The same is true with literally anything that is free on the Internet worldwide.

People (all sorts) use information in any way you can think of and multiply that by a thousand or more and then you see nothing online or on your phone that you get is really free ever.