EU Questions Apple on Fraud Prevention After Forcing Support for Riskier App Distribution

[digimc]

This is ridiculous on the EU's part, but Apple is also terrible about keeping obvious scams and fake apps out of the Store so I won't cry too much for them.

Actually I always thought that Apple did a pretty good job dealing with the scammy Apps, that is before the EU made them tear down a lot of those previous protections. If you find a scammy App you can quickly report it to Apple, and in most cases they remove the APP pretty quickly.

It's not perfect, nothing ever is, but I think Apple tries its best to stop the scammers. Problem is you get rid of one and there is another popping up in its place.

 

[digimc]

Yeah I am sure all these scams happen to people to who use alternative stores....
Like the guy who will believe that the Nigerian prince will reward him for his kindness is smart enough to download and use a third-party store

Actually it is much easier for a third party source to mimic a real App in the App Store and trick people into giving their payment information, especially since Apple can no longer authenticate these third party payment groups. Not too surprising that we are seeing a rise in fraud. It should have been pretty apparent to anyone that was paying attention.

 

[rp2011]

There you have it. They are complete idiots as we have saying all along. But nooo you even fine Apple for stuff no one is even asking for than clueless politicians that harm their own citizens.

 

[turbineseaplane]

I'm just going to pull from reddit where a user captured my feelings on this topic, but also specifically how "the bot" wrote this article here, including the biased feel to it.

 

[jarman92]

Actually I always thought that Apple did a pretty good job dealing with the scammy Apps, that is before the EU made them tear down a lot of those previous protections. If you find a scammy App you can quickly report it to Apple, and in most cases they remove the APP pretty quickly.

It's not perfect, nothing ever is, but I think Apple tries its best to stop the scammers. Problem is you get rid of one and there is another popping up in its place.

I reported a blatantly obvious scam app over a week ago and it’s still there. It’s been up for over 3 months, with 3 different updates approved. And there’s absolutely no way anyone could have opened it and not immediately seen that it’s a scam. So what exactly is app review doing, other than needlessly harassing normal devs over like font choice?

 

[digimc]

I reported a blatantly obvious scam app over a week ago and it’s still there. It’s been up for over 3 months, with 3 different updates approved. And there’s absolutely no way anyone could have opened it and not immediately seen that it’s a scam. So what exactly is app review doing, other than needlessly harassing normal devs over like font choice?

I will take your word on that. I don't download much these days from the App Store. I guess things have gotten worse. I know it used to be that Apple took a good number of them down. Maybe not the case anymore.

 

[Séamus Boyle]

The EU is the absolute worst. Look what they’ve caused in Ireland. Disgraceful they get away with this BS. Apple should tell them to piss off.

 

[surferfb]

While many of you know I’m not the EU competition office’s biggest fan, I don’t see the issue here. They’re not saying Apple is doing anything wrong. They’re just asking for information.

I mean, sure it’s ironic because they absolutely increased the risk of their citizens getting scammed with the DMA, but maybe they’ll learn something through asking Apple for information and realized they made a mistake with parts of the DMA. I doubt it, but stranger things have happened.

 

[TracesOfArsenic]

Lots of Apple fans in here going for the easy, non-nuanced whinge about the EU but fail to acknowledge how many scam apps are on iOS under their walled garden. Scam apps that make money, then get pulled from the AppStore but not before Apple keep the money made in the meantime.

 

[mjs916]

Regardless, there were - and still are - plenty of apps in the App Store today that scam users into ridiculous weekly subscriptions, etc.

When you say users are being scammed into weekly subscriptions, are you talking about showing a monthly price and then charging that same price weekly?

Or are you saying weekly subscriptions are just scams in general?

I’ve seen these weekly subscription offers before and I stay far away from them. It’s just far too expensive. But they’ve all been clear about the cost.

If you have evidence of a bait and switch you should report that to Apple and get the vendor kicked off the platform.

 

[rukia]

Apple should not be required to have anything to do with third party App Stores that Apple warned against and were forced to allow. The EU can question the third party app store owners like Epic.

 

[CATiNTHESTORE]

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Modern stupid politricks

 

[turbineseaplane]

I reported a blatantly obvious scam app over a week ago and it’s still there. It’s been up for over 3 months, with 3 different updates approved. And there’s absolutely no way anyone could have opened it and not immediately seen that it’s a scam. So what exactly is app review doing, other than needlessly harassing normal devs over like font choice?

Exactly this 👆
It's a consistent story on Apple's App Store, and has been for years now.

 

[CATiNTHESTORE]

Lots of Apple fans in here going for the easy, non-nuanced whinge about the EU but fail to acknowledge how many scam apps are on iOS under their walled garden. Scam apps that make money, then get pulled from the AppStore but not before Apple keep the money made in the meantime.

Examples in studio or it is only words

 

[CATiNTHESTORE]

I reported a blatantly obvious scam app over a week ago and it’s still there. It’s been up for over 3 months, with 3 different updates approved. And there’s absolutely no way anyone could have opened it and not immediately seen that it’s a scam. So what exactly is app review doing, other than needlessly harassing normal devs over like font choice?

Name the app

 

[Dr McKay]

I'm just going to pull from reddit where a user captured my feelings on this topic, but also specifically how "the bot" wrote this article here, including the biased feel to it.

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If all these people who seem to think the EU is claiming apple need to do more about scams in the 3rd party app stores could read, they'd be very upset with you right now!