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Pirated Movie App Disguised as Vision Test Snuck Onto App Store
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In other words, you are saying that Apple claims about their App Store being secure are rubbish. Just a pretext for not allowing sideloading and alternative app stores. I agree.
Nothing too see here.
Please move on.
No third-party purchasing options or links to third-party stores were found.
Primary goal of review completed successfully.
Everything else are just secondary, minor oversights.
Some store operator can surely do a a better job than Apple - and do a proper review.
Please move on.
Why though? Reviewer clearly understood his assignment:
No third-party purchasing options or links to third-party stores were found.
Primary goal of review completed successfully.
Everything else are just secondary, minor oversights.
They‘re testing the vision of what an EU app store can be outside the control of Apple.
Some store operator can surely do a a better job than Apple - and do a proper review.
Yeah no. I don't know why you want some stranger doxxed, because that's what would happen.
Maybe I’m oversimplifying but there should be a rule against apps that are just websites. Maybe that would kill most legitimate apps too, but if it’s just a website, make PWAs better and use Safari. I mean that was literally Steve’s original plan.
1.6 million apps someone just said, there cannot possibly be a need for a million apps.
“Johnny B., on the internet known by nick coolfactor, approved this app on March 7, 2023.”
There, enhanced it a bit. No need to thank me.
I read the article and fail to be surprised; I imagine this is the impact of Apple’s present day culture, ruled by metrics and automated testing.
This app didn’t crash anything, so it probably passed the closest thing to a functional test — and metric wise, if it didn’t have obvious typos in the write up, someone likely is under an “apps per day” requirement, so not to draw criticism from developers review is taking too long.
I hope to think Apple learns their method is flawed here but I imagine in practice only the individual that lucked out on this app review will be disciplined.
They could make sure that the top 100 apps are checked constantly in each category. That is not impossible. You only need a few people for that. Apple just doesn’t care.
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There are actually a few p0rn apps on the AppStore as well. You just have to have an account already from the website and „adult filters“ disabled (on the website) and once you log into your account on the app, you see and can download everythiiiiiing.
Heard it from a friend
Heard it from a friend
I assumed the app approval on the AppStore is not done by an actual human and AI or at least an automated process instead and only checked manually if something got flagged to double check it
Well there goes their security argument for locked down app store
This myth really needs to die.
Developers make a decent living just supporting open platforms like the Mac.
remember when there was a bunch of people on this website getting really mad about the eu app store stuff? 🤔 and wasn’t their whole argument that apple keeps out the kooky spooky stuff with their walled off ecosystem? 🤔🤔 and i don’t care about pirating, but i know apple definitely does 🤔 so like you gotta wonder 🤔🤔 if this kind of overt thing got through 🤔 what covert things are they completely fumbling? 🤔🤔🤔
oh man it’s almost like that whole argument is obviously wrong and common sense, stories like this, and those leaked executive emails tell us that ios is locked down because what apple actually wants is a lot more money 🤯
oh man it’s almost like that whole argument is obviously wrong and common sense, stories like this, and those leaked executive emails tell us that ios is locked down because what apple actually wants is a lot more money 🤯
I think this is intentional! It’s now news that bad content is on the App Store and highlights why you need a moderator!!
24 hours of these apps on the Store is less damaging than permanent non moderation forced by regulation…
Nice chess piece Apple. Well played!
24 hours of these apps on the Store is less damaging than permanent non moderation forced by regulation…
Nice chess piece Apple. Well played!
lol I already know a few movie box apps still active in App Store , wall gardened but still great
Post the data on alternative iOS stores showing what you claim.
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Obviously to those people, Apple as a company could do absolutely nothing wrong. What’s happening wrong is always a rouge individual or some people deemed to be “evil and unredeemable” kind of character. Yeah, management is not there to blame, nor the senior members making direction-changing decisions.
Just goes to show that some or just one of the App store review team are no different to that of building inspectors, they are either lazy or incompetent because there are many many things that building inspectors miss that should never have got missed but yet they do.
Currently these types of apps are not supposed to be allowed.
Yeah that’s kind of what I thought. Seems a lot of things that aren’t supposed to be allowed are allowed. And I read / listen to podcasts of developers constantly having to jump through pointless hoop after pointless hoop to get apps approved that obviously should be. The fairly recent episode of ATP describing Callsheet’s problems comes immediately to mind.
This is why people talk about sideloading and alternate app stores. Apple applies its own rules so inconsistently someone else might as well get a shot at it.
