The app store and the Google play store are absolute garbage as far as I'm concerned. Whatever protection they claim to offer is utterly bogus. If anything, th

The app store and the Google play store are absolute garbage as far as I'm concerned. Whatever protection they claim to offer is utterly bogus. If anything, they make it easier to leak personal information to random app makers, who, like you said, offer paid apps masquerading as free ones. The amount of junk in the native app stores is just way too high for me to ever buy the argument that they're there to improve end user experience.