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Apple Lists Top 25 Apps Compromised by XcodeGhost Malware
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Apps with an asterisk are currently not available on the App Store, but Apple says they should be updated very soon.
I take it you've never been to China.
They have some of the tackiest brands on the planet, and when you bother to look in to some of them you're shocked at how massive the companies behind them are. They don't do the smooth, clean and professional look that established Western firms do. They're perfectly happy with their products and brands (some of the biggest on planet Earth) looking messy and unrefined.
I'm not slating the Chinese, they just have a different style. If I was looking at the positive side, I'd say it was "more honest" or "less clinical".
Not saying these apps will all be big (although WeChat, Baidu Music and China Unicom will be), but you can't judge Chinese companies by their brand appearance.
I get that but they are moving entirely too slow. They have the money and resources to assess the damage swiftly and notify those affected. I had to find out from a 3rd party source which apps were affected. That's how I came to know I had infected apps on both my iPad and iPhone.
I shouldn't have had to go to google to to find out this info. Apple should have informed me.
Apple needs to leave the Chinese developers Apps only for China. I avoid Chinese developers apps like the plague, and so far it seems to be the correct thing to do.
Macrumors made an unfortunate typo in their list - Angry Bird2 is the name of the app as the graphic above the list shows. Not Birds, as that is the title of the popular game. Angry Bird2 is obviously a clone of Angry Birds 2.
It is Angry Birds 2. Just localised for China. Yifeng Li is a local Tv celeb here. Happens a lot these days. But it is AB2
Are you saying there are multiple iterations of AB2 out there? Apple needs to review the same app for every country?
Seems the strategy was not to pull apps asap to contain the issue, but allow developers to update the apps to remove the issue.
Not the strategy I would have gone with, but I can see why they did it for PR purposes and pretending there was no issue.....
It seems to me that the Apple Store knows what you bought on your device (if you are not jail broken); so the iTunes Update function should be able to flag them for you if you have errant versions. Instead, they expect you to read the whole list, manually check versions, etc. That' just silly and way inconvenient (that doesn't "just work").
WeChat is one of the most used IM programs in the world. It has almost half a billion users.
Gaode is a profession GIS company since 2002. It's also the data provider of Apple Map in China region. Google became a major player in search market after 2004.
BTW, we pronounce Gaode (高德, which means 'High Morality') as GAO-DE, and Google (谷歌, which means 'Grain Song') as GU-GE. We don't usually use English brand names.
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Oh. Thanks for your correction. I have found one more part I miss from using English extensively.
Simply because there are 1.4b citizens in that "tiny" continent, although way larger than Japan.
I say "Tiny" because it would be a problem to maintain so many citizens in that land.
I like how people are downplaying this by saying 'no one uses those apps' or my favorite ' they are crappy apps that are low quality'.
Doesn't really matter what you think. But the fact of the matter is people do use these apps. Whether it is 100,000 people using it or 1 person. Apple still should deal with it more aggressively. Removing the apps should have been the first step.
Doesn't really matter what you think. But the fact of the matter is people do use these apps. Whether it is 100,000 people using it or 1 person. Apple still should deal with it more aggressively. Removing the apps should have been the first step.
Are you perhaps confusing the country of China (~1.4 billion) with the continent of Asia (~4.4 billion)?
From the username, avatar, and comments, it looks like a very "weeaboo" poster to me.
And they're the worst when it comes to rabid Japanese nationalism and uninformed anti-China sentiment.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Weeaboo
Generally congregate in internet forums, defend Japan at every chance they get, and make uninformed, bizarre anti-Chinese posts with alarming regularity. They're rabidly pro-Japan, despite never having been there, but they feel an affinity with the country due to how much "magical girl" anime they have watched. They are rabidly anti-China, despite being unable to locate it on a map.