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Don't kid yourself. The Google play store is absolutely jammed full of malware and scam apps.
by shiftpgdn 7y ago
Don't kid yourself. The Google play store is absolutely jammed full of malware and scam apps.
- andybak 7y agoHowever they spend a considerable amount of money trying to stop those. It's fairly irrelevant to the preceding poster's point whether they succeed or not.
- pmart123 7y agoIt seems like an incumbent app should would likely want app stores to suffer from a lack of policing and degradation, whether they are paying 3%, 5%, or 30%. The less app stores are trusted for safety, the lower the friction there is to just use the established Netflix, Tinder, or Spotify app.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoHow much? What percentage of their 30% take do you think they're spending? <1% ?
- danShumway 7y agoNo, how much money or effort Google spends is irrelevant to the value they provide. If Google came up with a magical technique to get rid of all malware on their app store that didn't cost them a dime, you could still argue that they're adding value to justify the 30% cut. If Google spends a billion dollars to get rid of all the malware on their app store, and it doesn't work, and using the app store is not significantly less dangerous than sideloading apps, then they're not adding any value to justify the 30% cut. Note that I don't think Google's efforts are completely fruitless. At the very least, they seem to help with taking down duplicate apps, and that's something. But whether or not moderation is valuable only depends on whether they succeed or not -- their effort is irrelevant.
- Avamander 7y agoDon't kid yourself it wouldn't be absolutely unusable without them.
- on_and_off 7y agoReally ? With nobody to filter out impersonators and repackaging of an app with added malware ?