Comment by teekert
1 month ago
OMG, this requires it's own submission here on HN, I suggest you do it, this egregious. How low has Apple sunk. This is "the luxury brand" people.
1 month ago
OMG, this requires it's own submission here on HN, I suggest you do it, this egregious. How low has Apple sunk. This is "the luxury brand" people.
Meh.
Context: we're migrating to MS cloud services at work from Google so everyone is setting up accounts, authenticators etc. Pretty seamless migration overall btw, guess our admins worked like dogs.
So I post this screenshot in a work chat as a warning (that's why i still have it). All my Android using colleagues tell me "it's the same in the Play Store, watch what you click."
So it really is normal, wherever you go. We're not even surprised about it, let alone outraged.
We've lost.
Or maybe Apple lost. I haven't used their store for application discovery since i had an iPad 1 and it was the latest model.
Or maybe this just doesn’t matter that much?
“When I search for something, I have to flick my finger a quarter inch to scroll past an ad! It’s the end of all that is good in the world!”
It’s well known that the App Store is a cesspool of scam apps and ads, they’ve been criticised for many years for it, including by prominent Apple-centric blogs and authors, many of them submitted to HN over the years.