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by zepto 1866 days ago
> A large part of the stability can be attributed to sandboxing. This is what prevents apps from gaining unprivileged access and destabilizing the system. This is the time where relatives will call you.

True

> What you don't see, is all the apps that steal the user's data.

Exactly this. Apple now has policies against fingerprinting etc. which can’t be prevented by sandboxing.

> Curation obviously helps but it's difficult to measure to what extent.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/05/app-store-stopped-ove...