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Comment by starik36

3 days ago

The other side of your coin is that I need to periodically visit my relatives and remove all sorts of malware and adware from their phones. Just like I've done with PCs over the past few decades.

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baby_souffle  3 days ago

I get your point but neither the Play store or the Apple app store are devoid of malware.

  • iamnothere  3 days ago

    Obviously the solution is to restrict the stores to a small, government-licensed list of apps that are known to be safe and regulated.

Arodex  3 days ago

Then Apple should do its fucking job correctly. It is not a poor little company, they have no excuse for this rank incompetence. None.

  • preg_match  2 days ago

    The problem is largely structural. Debian has huge repos and swaths of maintainers, and it works out because they read and audit source code to a degree. The end-result is that the Debian repos definitely have much less malware than either the play store or the Apple app store.

    Apple does not audit source code, they do very simple behavioral analysis. And, evidently, even get that wrong, this post serving as an example.

  • turtlebits  3 days ago

    I'm sure the number of submissions has gone up exponentially due to AI.

    Since real people review apps, Apple should charge per app / version submission.

    • Timon3  3 days ago

      Oh, is the 100$/year developer fee not enough? And all the money people pay for their devices? And the 30% cut for any App Store transaction? And the money from the advertisements?

      Poor Apple needs to ask for even more money to do their job?

      Sure seems like they could find some other way.

    • Arodex  3 days ago

      You really can't just imagine Apple is doing a shit job.

      None of what you say can explain that Apple reviewers falsely accuse an app of being astrology when absolutely nothing proves it and double down when shown they are wrong. Again, absolutely nothing there could be explained by an "exponential number of submissions" nor solved by charging developers (even more than they already do!).

      Stop defending the indefensible.

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    • applfanboysbgon  3 days ago

      > Since real people review apps, Apple should charge per app / version submission.

      Or they could let developers upload apps to another app store. Apple isn't reviewing them out of charity, they're doing it to enforce a monopoly where they get a 30% cut of every developer's income.