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Alternatively, try to imagine the situation without these controls in place. Apple recently released figures for how many scam apps and accounts they’ve taken d
by stouset 5y ago
Alternatively, try to imagine the situation without these controls in place. Apple recently released figures for how many scam apps and accounts they’ve taken down, and the numbers are astronomical.
> Apple stopped over $1.5 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions.
> Apple expelled 470,000 teams from the Apple Developer Program for fraud-related reasons. It also rejected nearly 205,000 developer enrollment attempts over fraud concerns.
> Apple deactivated 244 million customer accounts due to fraudulent and abusive activity, including fake reviews. It also rejected 424 million attempted account creations due to fraudulent and abusive patterns.
https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Building_a_Trusted_Ecosystem_for_Millions_of_Apps.pdf https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Building_a_Trusted_Ecosys...
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- donmcronald 5y agoIMHO they’re profiting from bad actors and doing just enough to be able to claim they’re moderating. I think competing app stores could be much better quality by having better moderation. There’s a ton of margin ($), so the effort being put into moderation could be ramped up significantly and the margins would still be attractive to competitors.
- curryst 5y agoThis is what happens when the barrier to entry is almost non-existent. I would not be at all surprised if alternative app stores enforced higher requirements to publish. What's Steam doing these days on that front? They seem more open than requiring a major publisher, but I'm not aware of a large amount of malware or scams (other than the game being shitty). They seem to have a functional model for filtering bad publishers and/or apps.