[Apocryphon]

Your Apple bashing is really quite tiresome. Macs are serious machines and have grown in leaps and bounds over the past two decades. Are you seriously saying the de facto development platform for Silicon Valley startups, as well as the home for Apple Silicon, is no longer a “serious target”? No need to shill for Windows here.

[zepto]

It’s not a serious target for App Store scams, or scam software in general, because the user base is tiny compared to iOS.

I think you know this.

[Apocryphon]

Actually, the Mac App Store has received its share of scams.

https://www.howtogeek.com/281849/dont-be-fooled-the-mac-app-...

https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/mac-app-store-scam-apps

[zepto]

And ransomware and botnets too: https://www.avg.com/en/signal/mac-ransomware-remove-protect

Fortunately iOS users don’t have those problems because of the security model that you are so quick to dismiss.

[Apocryphon]

https://us.norton.com/internetsecurity-emerging-threats-ios-...

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-app-store-malware-click-fr...

[zepto]

As anyone who clicks on those links can see, those are neither Ransomware nor Botnets, so it’s not obvious what point you are trying to make.

Hard to see how you think such links support your argument for dismissing the security model.

Also of note - the central App Store was used to fix these problems.

[Apocryphon]

Truth be told, I find nothing wrong with the central App Store security model, merely that the status quo is insufficient. They should either ramp up enforcement on the store drastically, and/or open up the platform to third party stores, and thus competition, for other stores to attempt better ways at enforcing security and user privacy.

I do not view opening up the platform to third party stores or sideloading to be an excessive security risk, because having studied iOS's security model, it seems to be reasonably hardened (at least compared to Android) and I believe that Apple can manage the existence of other app sources well enough to prevent them from becoming significant malware vectors. The fact that those malware links are neither ransomware nor botnets proves how inherently secure iOS is, and thus protections are built into the operating system level, thus making the existence of third party stores irrelevant to its security.

[ksec]

> because the user base is tiny compared to iOS.

One Tenth. Or 100M+ User with lots of room to grow.

I wouldn't use tiny to describe it, even in comparative sense.

[pentae]

Especially considering the value of the userbase and the fact theres millions of PC's propping up 'marketshare' that aren't even being used as personal computing devices (retail displays/signage, corporate/government pc's)

[zepto]

If you are executing a scam why on earth would you pick the market that is one tenth the size?

[ksec]

>If you are executing a scam why on earth would you pick the market that is one tenth the size?

Because that user base are worth more than per user than the others?

[zepto]

Paying for expensive apps is one thing, falling for scams is another.