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This is well put. My primarily concern with Apple is their lack of ability to weed out scam apps from the App Store. Thousands of dollars are burned every year
by anupamchugh 5y ago
This is well put. My primarily concern with Apple is their lack of ability to weed out scam apps from the App Store. Thousands of dollars are burned every year only because the regular non-tech savvy isn't given the dumb transparent information about purchases.
- darkwizard42 5y agoI mean they must knock out a TON of bad apps and actors. I think it is pretty known that the Google Play store is much further fraught with scammy apps than Apple. A way to maybe rationalize it (not saying it is acceptable, but just the reasoning) is that we don't scrap our antivirus software because it failed to block EVERY SINGLE virus... we keep it because we know it blocks a vast majority of the problems that might affect the computer. For the point around purchases, Apple owning the App Store wholesale has led to helpful regulation of how in-app purchases work, how subscriptions can be used, how refunding policy on app purchases works. All this would likely get worse if every company pushed their app as an exclusive through their own third-party app store...
- josephcsible 5y agoFirst of all, a lot of people have scrapped their antivirus. And second, the problems caused by antivirus false positives are way less bad than the problems caused by all the non-malicious apps Apple has rejected.
- zepto 5y ago> My primarily concern with Apple is their lack of ability to weed out scam apps from the App Store. Apple weeds out a huge number of scams from the app stores. Their ability to do so is enormous. Removing Apple from the equation would massively increase the number of scams.