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by paxys 1965 days ago
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.
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App Review is hard. Apple does a better job at it than Google, so imagine what is happening on the play store.
Google doesn't lock you into the Play Store, though.
Is this something we just keep repeating, believing it to be true despite examples like this?
Because the examples on Google play are even worse?
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

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...