You don't care for sly? I state with conviction Apple is putting BS out there. Please prove they are 100% truthful. Apple's history of stating falsehoods is deep and well known.
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App Store Stopped 1.6 Million 'Risky' and 'Untrustworthy' Apps From Defrauding Users, Says Apple
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This is what's really going on here.
It doesn't work that way.
YOU are the one making the claim in this forum - with conviction no less - that Apple is not being truthful. The burden of proof is on YOU to show, with evidence, that Apple is lying.
Just as I suspected.
Just because the potential for fraud exists doesn't mean an App Store shouldn't be allowed to operate because if we were to take that logic to its logical conclusion that means that not even Apple's app store should be allowed to operate given the potential for fraud. Yet Apple is acting to mitigate fraud. If Apple could do it, why couldn't other App Stores do so as well as a term of condition of operation?
All these apps rejected...
But not TikTok!
No thanks, I don't need a nanny.
But not TikTok!
No thanks, I don't need a nanny.
Whether they're prepping or not, they can't lie about the numbers.
That's a possibility.
For me... I would want to see a *demonstrated* track record of fraud prevention with results metrics similar to Apple's to prove that that an alternate app store's claims are based on reality, and not just words.
Wow, those numbers are eye opening. Apple's App Store fraud prevention is Pro, baby. App Store Pro.
Seriously. I remember once I tried looking for a calculator app for my iPad.
Some had ads, others had monthly fees, none were as straight forward as the iPhone app.
Of course that's on Apple's search algorithm too.
It's really apple's fault for not including a freaking calculator. I just use google search bar as calculator.
I just wish there was a better way to search for things. Like, using an engine for searching across a web of world wide proportions that spans an international network. Then, the company could provide a hyperlink directly to their app in the App Store.
Maybe someday.
That's a lot of numbers Apple is tossing around and some insane ones - where can one find such data/study to substantiate the claims or do we just take Apple's word for it?
Take their word for it? Oh my....certainly not.
I'm assuming their message was in good faith. About a decade ago the Google Play store had a ton of issues with apps not stating anything about what they were doing at install, but once they started saying what the apps were doing, it got a lot better from the privacy and security point of view as it requires users to give explicit rights to do the bad things apps can do. Whether this is OK is questionable.
Apple does have a more rigorous process, but it still depends on humans who make mistakes with authorizing applications.
I research ever app developer of apps I want. I’m almost certain to reject any app for which the developer does not have a significant and public reputation.
Interesting...
ES File Explorer was banned from Google Play Store in 2019 but ended up on Apple App Store so it's the graveyard of banned Android apps.
ES File Explorer was banned from Google Play Store in 2019 but ended up on Apple App Store so it's the graveyard of banned Android apps.
Thanks, Apple. It is one of the reasons I stay with Apple.
I doubt that, show us a full list of all those Apps, developer communications, reasons, malicious code parts and dates.
But yeah, just Apple lobbying and kicking legs, protecting their anticompetitive behavior. ?
Digital Market Act, Digital Services Act, Right To Repair, many lawsuits and few bills will come Apple, doesn’t matter how you try fooling the public.
Probably over 50% of these invented “protective” actions was primarily with anti-competition in mind.
But yeah, just Apple lobbying and kicking legs, protecting their anticompetitive behavior. ?
Digital Market Act, Digital Services Act, Right To Repair, many lawsuits and few bills will come Apple, doesn’t matter how you try fooling the public.
Probably over 50% of these invented “protective” actions was primarily with anti-competition in mind.
As of 2019, Apple has more than 1 billion active users with 1.4 billion devices. No doubt it is higher now.
I suspect most of those users have downloaded some number of the 3.8 million apps currently in the App Store.
Given those numbers, I don't find what Apple is stating in the beginning of this story surprising at all.
I suspect most of those users have downloaded some number of the 3.8 million apps currently in the App Store.
Given those numbers, I don't find what Apple is stating in the beginning of this story surprising at all.
So if Google, Microsoft, Epic, Amazon, etc. follow Apple's lead and posts an article similar to this one on their site, with impressive numbers and absolutely no third-party vetting or actual publicly-available data backing up those claims, that would suffice?
Yeah, it'd be. nice if people would let us know, so we could either help them or developers here could create something.
i don't think they know. they reject a lot of apps and it is done by AI, they might as well have said "we've made it very hard for 1.6 million developers to publish their hard work because we don't have an actual human reviewing apps"