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obviously sorcery...
It’s the reason I don’t use windows as an operating system. System engineers once told me it’s designed to be full of Trojans and filth. I only ever had one windows laptop and it was inoperable after a week due to how slow it had got with bugs from genuine downloads from genuine websites, hence why i prefer Apple
 
It’s the reason I don’t use windows as an operating system. System engineers once told me it’s designed to be full of Trojans and filth.

They were lying to you. I have used Windows for 20 years and have never had a problem. I use it right now on my Macbook Pro and iMac with boot camp. Can problems occur? sure, but it's usually because the user was looking for trouble..
 
I agree but also Apple should not promote the AppStore as this unbreakable save space. Otherwise you get people to install things without thinking about it because you could assume everything that you see at the Store is save to install. Example this one
Where did apple made that claim, that it is “unbreakable”?
 
They were lying to you. I have used Windows for 20 years and have never had a problem. I use it right now on my Macbook Pro and iMac with boot camp. Can problems occur? sure, but it's usually because the user was looking for trouble..
So why when I downloaded Google chrome from the actual genuine site would I get spyware installed on my machine and my webcam hacked
 
Not exactly a point in Apple's corner for "The App Store ecosystem is secure" is it?
 
So why when I downloaded Google chrome from the actual genuine site would I get spyware installed on my machine and my webcam hacked

This has big "No Dad, I swear I didn't visit any of those sites!" energy.
 
If you want to sideload, get an Android.

I don’t get it. If you don’t like a platform, then switch.

When two companies have dominant positions in a market, as Apple (with iOS) and Google (with Android) have in their mobile OS duopoly, restrictions can stifle competition and innovation. This is a reason we have antitrust laws and regulations.



I don’t like paying a lot of money for BMW so I don’t drive one. I don’t like Samsung appliances so I don’t buy them. I don’t like the humidity, so I don’t live in humid areas.

There are significantly more choices in automobiles, appliances, living locations, etc.
 
We should be mad at the scammers, not Apple. It’s like being mad at the police because people still get murdered.

I rather have a store where 1.25M scam apps are being removed annually than no safeguards at all.
Wrong. Analogies are often a poor replacement for an argument and it’s shown here. This is nothing like the police. Many of us don’t want or need Apple to police us. It’s our phone.

What we want is a choice to break out and install our own apps. This doesn’t affect you at all whatsoever.

So when Apple says in court they don’t want to implement side loading of apps because it’s not safe and exposes users to dangerous software, we laugh now because apparently Apple also allows scam apps into their store.

You may not agree, but you can at least attempt to wrap your head around this thought process.
 
Glad you put the word reasonably in italic. Because Apple has to review many thousands of apps each day, they block 1.25M a year. The public and devs demand these reviews to be quick.

Hey, there's about half a billion people unemployed people in the world and Apple has wads of cash.
Apple can't even claim force majeure.
For all I care they can hire all of them while they find a way to automate the job or renege on their promise.

I don't know why we are looking for excuses here.
You promise, you deliver.
Promise something you can't deliver?
Tough ****.

We all know, anyway, that the App Store, while very handy in itself, is first and foremost a way to double down on Apple's control of customer hardware, so that's not even the point.

So the only conclusion is that the vast majority of apps have to be checked automatically. And only a very small percentage get additional manual checks.

So bad apps will unavoidably slip through.

Possibly.
Not my problem.
My problems are others. I solve them.
They pay me.
I use the money to buy an iPhone.
Now it's Apple's problem to make it work.

And, again, this is a major one that all sorts of semi-automated procedures should have flagged.

"Document management app" gets renamed to "Facebook ad something something" and suddenly needs Facebook permissions?
==> Immediate re-review.
 
Tell that to my mate who downloaded Google chrome on his old microsoft laptop from the Google website itself and his computer got infested with spyware, Trojan’s and porn.

Oh God, that's awful.
Could have been worse though, could have been infested with Chrome.
 
So this will probably force Apple to turn on KILL SWITCH for first time ever (remote uninstall apps from device)
 
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