Damn Apple acted SUPER FAST on this one!
And there is still doubts to why most of us here choose Apple? Sad that this slipped through and hopefully nobody's sensitive financial, taxation or etc data was stolen.
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Damn Apple acted SUPER FAST on this one!
And there is still doubts to why most of us here choose Apple? Sad that this slipped through and hopefully nobody's sensitive financial, taxation or etc data was stolen.
If Apple was conscious they wouldn't even accept such app in the first place.
Your quotes remind me of a kid who get's caught doing something wrong. Instead of owning it, he starts to tell what everyone else did hoping it will somehow lessen his guilt by comparison. Carry on.
The vast majority of those require the device to be jailbroken. The remainder use enterprise provisioning. There's no anti-malware available for iOS, so carriers can't be shipping it with new devices. Stop conflating Android and iOS. Besides, this was a macOS app, not an iOS app.
Other than deflecting from the topic, I fail to see how your post is helpful or informative or anything other than a desperate attempt to point the finger of blame towards anyone but Apple. Apple basically hosted malware in the MAS. They let it continue to propagate after the issue was brought to their attention. They only removed it after being publicly shamed.
Your response is to use all caps to point at Google. Seems appropriate. Mac owners must feel a lot better in a misery loves company sort of way.
Another thing to consider is that no one has said that Google curates like Apple is said to do.
Malware is not virus. Just keep you Mac updated and don't install crap.
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You can read about Play Store horror everyday. I have friends with a very famous iOS/Mac app, not available for Android. A scammer copied icon and screenshot and uploaded a simple web view app to PlayStore which ask you google login. The approved it and took 2 weeks to remove it after being reported. This is the difference. This kind of news is like a Tesla car accident versus minion of car accident the same day.Other than deflecting from the topic, I fail to see how your post is helpful or informative or anything other than a desperate attempt to point the finger of blame towards anyone but Apple. Apple basically hosted malware in the MAS. They let it continue to propagate after the issue was brought to their attention. They only removed it after being publicly shamed.
Your response is to use all caps to point at Google. Seems appropriate. Mac owners must feel a lot better in a misery loves company sort of way.
I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make. The Play Store has as much to do with this as the App Store for iOS. Neither have anything to do with a rogue app in the MAS. Hand waving about Play Store issues doesn't negate or lessen the Adware Doctor issue. If I have a Mac, why would I care what issues are on the Play Store?
Yah, it's a bit worrying to me, but it may be painting a picture of what's to come for our younger civilizations. China is thousands of years old, and clearly, in general, they've lost sight of the basic principles of human decency. Or maybe it's a desperation due to their enormous population and limited resources. Either way, large swaths of Chinese "entrepreneurs" just don't care. They just want to get as much return from their venture as they can. I'm no economy expert, that's just my layman's perspective, but we all share that same fear of "Made in China", and now they are infecting our computers. It's worrying.
Maybe Apple needs to post the country that every developer is based out of, clearly on the App Store, so we can make informed decisions before installing, and without a lot of extra research needed.
But how did this app make it through Apple's strict checks? That's my biggest question. Glad they acted quickly. Thanks for that.
July 31, 2018 "Apple Services Revenue Reaches New All-Time High"
That's why I don't trust all Chinese companies.
Just like you can't trust every Chinese restaurant that serves 'chicken', to actually serve chicken.
Just like you can't trust every Chinese restaurant that serves 'chicken', to actually serve chicken.
Off the top of my head...
Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, Pixelmator, Day One, 1Blocker, Textual, Tweetbot
You consider these to be "****** scam apps"? You have odd notions.
The states are much better when it comes to privacy. First of all there's no great firewall, so in the states you can use privacy conscious services (like DuckDuckGo and StartPage) that would be banned in China. Second of all the police state in China in general is much more extreme than anything that has ever been done in America. The authorities in Beijing literally have 100% of the city under 24/7 surveillance, and give all citizens a "social score".As if the states is any better.
The server is physically located in China. There's your proof. Keep up the denial though.Or it could be Mark Zuckerberg!
Really, they pay nothing for the servers or anything? Just pure profit? sigh.
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yeah, I read about ghosts in the mountains just north of me. Doesn't mean they exist in the wild.
Apple needs to do their due diligence to test these apps for the data they collect. DISAPPOINTING!
Incredible how easy it is to make money if you have no ethics. This has definitely grossed a decent amount of money.