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by jollybean
1890 days ago
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Great work Kosta, I've met him, he's brilliant. The fact that it's essentially trivial for a non-technical/non-expert to uncover obvious elements of fraud I think gives pause to the oft-repeated mantle "Our Control is Essential To Your Security". There are some voices here who oddly believe that their limited choice is a price worth paying for quality, but the reality is there's no legitimate reason for Apple to not allow 3rd party downloads if users so chose, and, no legitimate reason for them to not provide considerably more transparency in the approval process. The paradox is, that unlike Amazon.com who may or may not actually benefit from a deluge of fake goods, Apple definitely doesn't need these scammy apps around for it's own benefit. |
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I guess you're saying Apple is very rich, so they don't need the cut of scam apps that are top-grossing? That makes sense, but it's the opposite of the framing I was thinking: if Apple is making money off of the scams along with the scammers, that doesn't set up a very strong incentive for Apple to remove these.
I completely agree with you about 3rd party downloads and review transparency.