I wouldn’t blame capitalist conspiracy just yet what can be attributed to practical intentions for reasons: 0. Trying to prevent average developers from shoot

I wouldn’t blame capitalist conspiracy just yet what can be attributed to practical intentions for reasons: 0. Trying to prevent average developers from shooting themselves in the feet too often by having apps that depend on external servers to run, then having a big security incident and Apple being blamed for allowing insecure, third-party code to run. 1. Trying to keep tabs on devs pivoting too far without a re-review. Can’t sell a Farmville app that then becomes a bitcoin wallet which then steals said bitcoins. 2. Keep the quality of apps up by curating through review rather than allowing free, unlimited publishing of random/broken apps. It’s a small barrier to entry and proof that someone invested to make something worth publishing. 3. Malware for old/jailbroken iOS existed way back, but it’s not really a thing, anymore because 0days get mostly either reported to Apple or sold/auctioned off. https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/Malware_for_iOS https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/Malware_for_iOS