let us not forget that Android is way ahead in fraudulent apps. woohoo android #1
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There is so much wrong with this statement I'm not sure where to begin.
In this case Apple deserves to be denigrated. They've been gaslighting privacy and the lie of App Store security for years when in fact their walled garden has more holes than Swiss Cheese
Because you’re wrong and don’t want to put words down. Apple removed the apps….but you want them to be sideloaded? LMAO.
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Did everybody complaining about the “walled garden” miss the 10/70 ratio mentioned in the article? Or was that line inserted just for the screen on my device only.
Go find me some reptilian space lasers. If you’re going to post conspiracy theories go all the way, not just 75%.
Android is #1 Woohoo, over 70 apps to Apple's only 10. Keep up the good work Google!
You left out:
- app buyers who'd rather support a developer/company directly instead of seeing a cut of sales go to a middle person
- people who want a legit app (e.g. VPN), but Apple caved to a country's (PRC) demands and removed them from the App Store
- Apple removing legit apps just because they haven't been updated in a while even if the apps don't require an update. (If it's not broke, why would the developer need to provide an update for it?)
- people who want a legit app (e.g. Fortnite), but the developer doesn't think Apple should get a cut of revenue for doing nothing and so Apple removed it from their App Store
I don't know what you smoke while you play chess, because as much as I enjoy the game, I've never experienced anything close to "a rush" while checkmating someone.
and you left out the fact the requirement to subscribe is there so that customers can have a complete process, there is no ban from companies having a separate subscription process where apple receives nothing. so yah, more of the same old same old tired incorrect arguments
Yes however my CompTIA exams call it sideloading so for the sake of parity let's just call it that until we actually get the damn thing on iOS.
No, because not everyone who wants to sideload is a criminal, a "pirate who doesn't want to pay for apps" or someone with a "grudge". I would have thought that obvious but evidentially not.
Let me deflate your asinine theory further: We've been sideloading on our laptops/desktops for decades now.
You really want to go down this road of "Apple's only 10"?
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Because, in your world, there wouldn’t be hundreds more fake apps if sideloading were a thing? Actually appears to back up what Apple says… so much so, I wonder if Apple is somehow paying these Security Researchers so that they have something to show in front of congress.
“Don’t take our word for it. With our best efforts, some apps still get through as reported by these Security Researchers. Multiply this tiny sum by the number of malicious actors on the internet and our customers would be DELUGED with false apps. DELUGED I TELLS YA!”
It actually supports Apple’s claims.
“This is how many fake apps there are on the one portal where there is a continuous activity to try to reduce the number of scam apps. How many fake apps does one think there would be if they were posted to areas that are not trying to reduce, but instead trying to INCREASE the number of fake apps exponentially every day?”
Security researchers discover 10. 10! There would be 1000 on day one if sideloading was a thing LOL! Good Security Researchers would say that “While this is bad, we do admit that there would be far more fake apps if users were free to obtain apps from anywhere. Apps that would likely do far worse than just pretend to be another app.”
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Everyone critical knows that the App Store sucks. Phil Schiller knows it but is being worked against by fresh graduates who infiltrated Apple like parasites who jave no idea what Apple stands for. All they do is make revenue by all means and save money instead of the App Store provide quality apps that make actual revenue, like it did when it first went online. Not even talking about The Mac App Store is even worse than Google Play Store and feels like a raided supermarket in the middle of nowhere. As long these bogus app generate income for themselves and Apple, these fresh graduates working at Apple only care about the numbers.
This is not an incorrect argument. Fortnite was removed from the App Store specifically for this reason. Epic set up their own in-app payment system so Apple wouldn't get a cut. Apple didn't like that and booted Fortnite off the App Store.
Developers (e.g. Spotify, Netflix) weren't even allowed to mention within their own app other ways to pay for a subscription until a judge ruled that that's a no-no.
Judge orders Apple to allow external payment options for App Store by December 9th, denying stay
The stay is denied.
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The ONLY sideloaded app on my android phone is AFWall+ (a real firewall that isn't available on the PlayStore) and it makes my phone even more secure. Heck, my phone is more secure than your iPhone since any tracking data never leaves my phone. Until Apple puts a proper firewall on iOS, all the talk of security is just lip flapping.
Y'all know why Apple will never put a firewall in iOS? Because they know people will use the firewall to block ads. No ads = no ad revenue. That's the same reason Google banned AFWall+ from the PlayStore.
You may not be aware that in life where humans are involved there isn't 100.0% perfection 100.0% of the time.
You may also not be aware of the number of apps Apple rejects. For 20202:
- It rejected almost 1 million apps that were submitted for the first time
- It rejected almost 1 million app updates.
- 48,000 apps were removed for using “hidden or undocumented features,” often software tools that Apple uses internally for its own apps.
- 150,000 apps were removed because they were spam or copied another app.
- 215,000 apps were removed because they collected too much user data or other privacy violations.
- 95,000 apps were removed for fraud, often because they changed after Apple’s review to become a different kind of app, including gambling apps or pornography.
- Apple booted 470,000 accounts from its developer program because of fraud.
They found 10 fraudulent apps... out of 2,000,000 apps?
Is this really a cause for concern?
My other question is... how many fraudulent apps were stopped from getting on the App Store?
Of course we don't like it when bad apps sneak through the app review process. But I'd love to know how many bad apps are actually prevented from getting on the App Store in the first place.
🤔
EDIT: The comment above provides a lot of info. Thanks @citysnaps 👆
Is this really a cause for concern?
My other question is... how many fraudulent apps were stopped from getting on the App Store?
Of course we don't like it when bad apps sneak through the app review process. But I'd love to know how many bad apps are actually prevented from getting on the App Store in the first place.
🤔
EDIT: The comment above provides a lot of info. Thanks @citysnaps 👆
I would like that any app that is (re)installed will always be blocked from all kinds of access, especially the local network access. In fact the best thing would be to limit internet access too; firewalled to only fully checked servers. I've seen many applications and especially hardware trying to access alternative DNS servers and other servers that have in no way anything to do with the function of the app/hardware.
Is it just me? Looking at that list I keep seeing titles that Chinese developers give to their apps.
You and me both.
And even once they do, the forums will still complain and make bad takes about alternative app stores/sideloading/installing software like normal on desktop.