[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.