[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