That's a nice way to say your apps have been rejected for instability.
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Fake LastPass App Sneaks Past Apple's Review Team
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Unlike you I have an opinion instead of saying it could be this or that.
Ever have a windows app crash? Vendor software crashes happen.
I quit lastpass sometime back when it was revealed how they were hacked and didn't communicate that straight away to the public.
I suggest you check your deleted folder in your lastpass. The folder is supposed to automatically delete all deleted passwords after 30 days. I logged in after 3 years of leaving LastPass and was surprised to find all of my "deleted" passwords still in the Deleted folder. Good thing I changed all of my passwords when I switched managers.
Because we don’t want gimmicky AR/VR. What some of us want is an actual proper Mac Pro please. M* Ultra being the best Apple could do is not enough. This is someone that has three Ultra Mac Studios. Two M2 one M1.
That’s why it’s good to just change all your passwords when moving to a new platform. Or leaving a platform.
Exactly. Case in point:
Most recently, security research Alex Kleber discovered seven malware apps hiding in plain sight on the Mac App Store.
Nearly 2 percent of Apple’s top-grossing apps on one day were scams — and they have cost people $48 million
That man’s name is Kosta Eleftheriou, and over the past few months, he’s made a convincing case that Apple is either uninterested or incompetent at stopping multimillion-dollar scams in its own App Store.
The censorship-loving App Store apologists who prattle on about the sanctity of Apple’s profits will never face reality, but the truth is obvious. Apple simply doesn’t have the time and human capital to effectively review every app. The App Store is full of malware apps, phishing apps, apps that sell your location data to anyone and everyone.
Cue the apologists…
I regularly work with multiple developers. There are certainly things they don't like, but the system is not fundamentally broken.
You just moved the goalposts completely. There's a lot of space between "great" and "broken"
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And post in the reason that alternative app stores could bring mayhem to the apple ecosystem - I’m not talking about potential corporate stores like Microsoft, but BYOA stores.
Who cares? Don’t install random apps from sketchy stores. Problem solved. If other people want to, that’s their prerogative. Third party app stores won’t impact the Apple ecosystem one bit if you don’t use them.
I’m shocked by how much Apple fandom has changed since the iPhone. Pre-iPhone Apple fans were all about innovation. Today’s Apple fans celebrate corporate control, parrot whatever manipulative bs Apple feeds them, and prattle on endlessly about profits.
I personally left them when I read they got bought up my a VC group and I quickly saw what they planned to do.
That is stop investing in the product and raise prices and let it slowly die milking it for value until nesr the end they sell it off for scraps. The VC group makes a ton of money.
That doesn’t solve the problem.
Potential to impact EU users. Whether you want to agree to that point or not.
The aspersers have also changed since 2011. Criticism used to be positive and now it’s throw anything against the wall and see how it sticks. And yeah, this is today’s climate.
You are argue that it is good shape which it is not. Apple system is pretty bad and overly complex. If anything most who deal with it will say it is in bad shape and needs massive changes. It is overly complex. A massive security hole for a company as it can not be centrally manage. When someone leaves someone has to manually go kill Apples account. No remotely killing them all with SSO and tying it back to an SSO manage by IT. Instead it become something that one of admins has to manually do and I will be honest when teams get big enough it is a huge pain to track manage. This just gets more back to Apple stuff is consumer grade and points back to not being helpful to developers.
Apple's system is way to complex, easy for things to get broken that cost a lot of time to fix. Big time if you want to use enterprise certs that is even a bigger mess and clearly Apple is making it harder than it should be. So yeah Appstore connect.
I have my own rant about Sign in with Apple which god awful to setup and manage. Only reason you see it used it Apple demands it.
What I want know is if this is an app that provides passes to access lasses or if it's for gay men who pass on lasses.
Problem = "Malicious apps can be downloaded from sketchy
Solution = "Don't download apps from sketchy
That solves the problem. Unless your problem is something else, in which case you're throwing out the baby with the bathwater
Problem is an additional vector of attack is opened by alternative app stores. The fact that this avenue even exists is the issue.
No, I didn't. I simply argued that it's not broken. As evidenced by my experience, the massive developer support, and the developer revenue compared to android.
I am an Android fanboy. There is no such thing as a secure app store. When you use a PC, you are already exposed to the wild west and the best anti virus in the world is actually you the user and this incident with Apple proves just that.
I don't believe the Apple app store is 100% secure because it just isn't possible to vet every single app in the review process in detail. I treat it to he just as secure as the Play Store. Beeper was able to exploit iMessage on Android suggesting that was having vulnerabilities as well.
You could argue we are seeing only 1-2 shady apps and Apple is stopping 1,000 of them while third party stores probably wouldn't do anything.
But here is the thing. People trust the App Store. People would not trust third party stores. Android specifically warns you when sideloading any app and the user is well aware of the risks. Apple is providing a false sense of security on their App Store so a user may not even use basic common sense when downloading any app from it.
It's like this. If I know an alley is dangerous and I am at risk of getting mugged, I would avoid it or at the very least ensure I have some protection when going through it. If someone assures me that an alley is safe, I wouldn't think twice walking through.
This incident neither supports nor weakens Apple position. Nothing is safe. It's upto the user to use basic common sense.
And apple is doing a great job on its own. Apple own system is providing a false sense of security as this is a single example.
Someone else provide a link of the research done on Apple's own store and it has a fair amount.
In some ways Apple own store can allow to sucked people by posting a link to a scetchy app and false sense of security causes people to download it.
Same sketchy moves hosted in Apple own site. How long was it up before rhe media reported it and apple took action. There are others that last by far longer.