After 174 comments so far - I checked the App Store and this app is still there.
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Fake LastPass App Sneaks Past Apple's Review Team
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Sure, I can imagine an app store where more of that stores profits go into curating quality apps and veting the submissions better. Apple is not the gold standard.
I just checked. It doesn't show up. Maybe you need to clear history or cache.
Well no. If EU had it their way, fake Lastpass apps would be everywhere. I can literally download a fake Lastpass app on my Android today. With App Store, as of this writing, I cannot.
Of course, if you wait long enough, they will eventually delete it. You waited long enough before you made that comment. Besides, fake apps are not that uncommon on the app store.
I didn't "wait". It was available for a short period, then it was gone. Meanwhile a sketchy Lastpass apk can be downloaded today. This was true last year and still is true today.
Am I missing something - Apple is supposed to know if an app is a scam because they know EVERY app that exists on the store in-depth, and so do their moderation team? How does Apple know which app is legit? I think it's a bit much to expect Apple to magically know all about every app and its purpose - but if they are properly informed, then they should remove the app, which they have done.
This seems to be outrage for the sake of outrage to me!
This seems to be outrage for the sake of outrage to me!
And tell me you are not an iOS developer with out telling me you are not an iOS Developer.
I have been doing it professionally for over 12 years. The one thing I have not heard from an IOS Developer in that time is Apple process is great.
No instead it is the other way around. Apple process sucks. A massice pain in the ass and jokes like pray to the Apple gods that it works. Rejectetions are cryptic messages. Often times a solution to get threw it is just resubmitted with a new build number and see if it gets threw.
So no most professional developer will say the Apple system sucsk and a much larger pain in the ass than it needs to be. It has gotten slightly better over the years but by in large the process sucks and a huge pain in the ass. If you have to do anything complicated and slightly different than normal even a bigger pain in the ass.
Tell you the truth they can. Google showed some of its power on fort night when they left the play store. Epic fortnite installer had a massice security issue and Google basically told Epic "fix it crap or we will" we will being demoting uninstalling the app from all Android phone no matter what. Google has to show its hand that it had that power. I am willing to bet Apple has it as well just that is a huge trigger they don't want to have to pull.
I know of an old one in the past that emoting turned on jail breaking for users and it was out in the wild for a while.
I think there were some other unauthorized vpn ones in the pass.
I have done this long enough to know it is fairly easy to hide stuff from Apple reviewers to save dealing with questions of wierd things in the app.
One of the fun ones from my pass was demo or beta being seen would get you rejected. Like a beta features for users to use. Rejected over it. It was a new beta feature. Solution turn it off for review accounts to not deal with the off chance.
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Using you on argument. Apple did throw the baby away with the bath water by blocking side loading.
Apple using "security" as their reason is bs. Real reason is pure greed.
When criminals think a pay day is coming, and that effort is focused on that, it follows that inventive ways will be found to skirt the system and fleece the customers. Other stores may be there just for scamware and malware. Nobody knows how this will all pan out.
Competition by government regulation doesn't really seem to ever work out for all concerned. With the exception of some big name corporate stores; eg Microsoft - should they decide to enter the fray, you think this will be rainbows and unicorns.
They are entitled to their greed and you are entitled not to use their products.
It is absolutely not a given that any other store will be able to have a bar half the height of Apples for that matter.
You can. But would you?🤔
I can download a real firewall app on my Android phone. Can't do that in the App Store. If Apple quit breaking jailbreak, I would get a real firewall app on the Cydia app store.
The thing about news like this is that we see the apps that slip past review, but we don’t see the other thousand scam apps that Apple does detect and stop for each one that does get through.
It’s similar to law enforcement. Just because crime still exists in my country doesn’t mean the police force is worthless and should be disbanded.
Much ado for nothing.
Never said it was given. Unlike you, I’m not making assumptions one way or the other on the quality of other app stores and their security.
It's not Apple business to catch the app crashes, it's developer (QA) job. Besides, if Apple was really serious about crashes they would need to do a better job at it. As is, they can't even make sure their own apps don't crash.
Ok so Apple screwed up and let it through. Mistakes are made, so are improvements as a result of those mistakes. Apple has a big incentive to do fix because liability, reputation and income stream from a safe App Store.
That said, I don’t think independent app stores will have better resources or fewer mistakes than Apple even if the incentives are similar. Also for app stores with a hidden malicious agenda, the incentives are irrelevant.
That said, I don’t think independent app stores will have better resources or fewer mistakes than Apple even if the incentives are similar. Also for app stores with a hidden malicious agenda, the incentives are irrelevant.
I’m glad I went from my password excel sheet directly to iCloud Keychain in 2014. It keeps getting better and has never had an issue.