Comment by Pfhortune
2 years ago
> I am willing (and believe I am) paying Apple a premium for a well curated and reviewed App Store (vs android)
There is a plethora of evidence that this is not the case. See this recent example: https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/08/a-fake-app-masquerading-as...
(Yes, it was pulled, but that was _after_ the public noticed and LastPass had to issue a warning)
> I just wish they would stop “double dipping “ and charging far in excess of their costs (and in excess of reasonable profit) to the app sellers.
That quarterly growth has to come from somewhere! Line goes up!
> There is a plethora of evidence that this is not the case.
Do you have actual evidence for this claim? Because it's pretty widely accepted that the App Store has higher standards and quality, and you just cited a single case.
Just recently from HN: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39685272 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33797623 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14526156
10 malicious apps (2022) https://www.macrumors.com/2022/09/26/ios-app-store-ad-fraud/
7 malicious apps (2022) https://lifehacker.com/great-now-the-apple-app-store-has-mal...
18 malicious apps (2019) https://www.wired.com/story/apple-app-store-malware-click-fr...
Up to 4000 malicious apps (2015) https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34338362
Are you seriously implying Apple catching 17 malware apps in 2022 means the App Store isn’t safer than being able to download whatever you want from the internet?
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App review is a kid in China with an iPad playing with the app for 3-4 minutes. That's not worth a 30% cut of all app proceeds.
It's always easy to show that something isn't perfect: just find a counterexample.
It's also easy to multiply that tactic by insinuating that this means that it isn't good, or isn't better than the competition. Which is what you're doing here.
That tends to happen when your entire argument hinges on something being (close to) perfect, like the app store review process.