[paxys]

It's funny that these scam apps and fake reviews can exist in the app store en masse, while everyone on forums like this one will praise Apple for every heavy-handed decision against legitimate apps (which coincidentally were all in Apple's own interests) because hey the walled garden keeps us safe.

[valuearb]

App Review is hard. Apple does a better job at it than Google, so imagine what is happening on the play store.

[thesuitonym]

Google doesn't lock you into the Play Store, though.

[bhawker]

Is this something we just keep repeating, believing it to be true despite examples like this?

[valuearb]

Because the examples on Google play are even worse?

[AshWolfy]

from a user experience point of view it doesnt really matter how much of a distribution platform is compromised, if you reach a tipping point where it become useless.

The only real way to use apps stores these days is to have prior knowledge something is legit

[coldtea]

Well, there's still this: https://www.pandasecurity.com/en/mediacenter/mobile-security.... (2019)

50 times LESS likely to be infected with malware sounds like good walled-garden gatekeeping to me, even if it's not perfect...