> 1. And most anti-virus are considered a scam by most people Many people consider iPhone prices a scam and yet... > 2. Apps that make egregious use of devic

> 1. And most anti-virus are considered a scam by most people Many people consider iPhone prices a scam and yet... > 2. Apps that make egregious use of device APIs to implement tracking won't be flagged as a virus. That's true for the iPhone as well Apple itself track its users. from a news report in the Washington Post > Apple says, “What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone.” Our privacy experiment showed 5,400 hidden app trackers guzzled our data — in a single week The point was that the check could be implemented by third party software on the device or by a software specifically crafted by the publishers, you don't need the Apple check, which is also very opaque.