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Ironic the Apple App store allows a "phone antivirus" to exist.
by samename 8mo ago
Ironic the Apple App store allows a "phone antivirus" to exist.
- ronsor 8mo agoFunnily enough that's given as an example of a prohibited type of app in their review guidelines.
- PlatoIsADisease 8mo ago[flagged]
- cyanydeez 8mo agoI prefer Walled Rent Seekers Paradise
- cwillu 8mo ago@PlatoIsADisease (because dead comments can't be replied): the term WalledGarden has been a term for this and related concepts since long before marketing-speak had completed the takeover of the internet.
- krackers 8mo agoBut it's rated 4.4 stars! I'm guessing it hoovers your contacts and tries to get you to sign up for the IAP subscription.
- jsheard 8mo agoThe meta these days is bundling dodgy SDKs which turn the device into a residential proxy, which then gets sold on to the highest bidder. Mostly AI companies, whose desire to scrape literally everything has driven demand for that type of malware into the stratosphere.
- walletdrainer 8mo agoSurely that doesn’t work very well on iOS devices unless you’re actively holding the location api open or something, which would be noisy.
- xp84 8mo agoAlmost unbelievable that they allow this - except of course they do, because scamware makes a ton of money via in-app purchase, and Apple gets 30%, so of course they do. I'm sure people will come out of the woodwork now to white knight for Apple and spin this somehow. But anything that offends their business model can be removed in minutes, while software that by its title violates the App Store rules is just here indefinitely.
- 9dev 8mo agoI'm pretty sure that one made it through the review for some reason, you don't typically see these apps in the App Store.
- shepherdjerred 8mo agothere's a ton of these apps. if you turn off your adblock, use your iPhone for a bit and click a few ads, you'll find a bunch.
- cbarrick 8mo agoQuite an unhinged take. The claim that malware "makes a ton of money" for Apple definitely needs a citation. I certainly don't believe it. Obviously, Apple understands that the reputational damage from malware is more costly than any cut they might get from the miniscule sales of it. Apple might be evil (for some definition of "evil"), but they're not dumb. Occam's Razor and Halon's Razor are aligned here. Apple would prefer this app not exist, but somehow it slipped through the review.
- mitemte 8mo agoThe App Store has done a great job of training users to think that anything downloaded from it is somehow safe. In reality, Apple’s static code analysis and human review processes are flawed and people need to exercise way more caution than they do.
- halapro 8mo agoCurated App Store, they said. Might have been true in 2010