[netdevphoenix]

> On the web, if your server is compromised it's game over, even if the publisher is not malicious. In app stores, you have some guarantee that the code that ends up on your device is what the publisher intended to ship (basically signed packages)

Not quite. It is possible for an account to be taken over or bought and a new update deployed. It is also possible for the server the app gets its data from to be taken over just like in your example and serve you fake data to make you regurgitate whatever data the malicious actor wants