[jstarfish]

> The many mobile browsers which hide the address bar are training people to ignore website urls.

This is my biggest complaint about forcing users to use apps to browse a website-- it hides everything. I have no idea if any given app is actually using SSL. Oversights have happened before to Credit Karma, Fandango and others.

[saurik]

https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/14/apple-will-require-https-c...

[saagarjha]

IIRC you can still submit an app with exemptions to this rule; you will just have to provide a justification for it that Apple deems reasonable.

[paraditedc]

On the positive side, with apps, there's a lower chance to land on a phishing app, because apps need to be reviewed before they appear on the store.

[penagwin]

RIP Microsoft. IMO this is a big reason why their phones/app store died. Try finding the real VLC player in the store - last I checked they dont even have a app store version (but you'll find tons of results for it).

[vezycash]

There's real vlc app in both Windows and WP app store. In fact there were two official VlC apps for Windows Phone. One was written with c/c++ and the other UWP version

[Wowfunhappy]

^ Though, it should be noted that the fact that there's two official versions speaks to a somewhat parallel issue.