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> I have no interest in installing a web app that could look innocuous today and be entirely different every time I hit F5. That's been the case with native ap

• Rohansi 3mo ago
  It's against the App Store rules but if you build an app with React Native/Expo you can OTA update it to do something completely different without going through another review. Enforcement is minimal, especially since you can selectively roll out updates to make it unlikely that a reviewer gets it. It's such a weird thing to be concerned about though. Your phone automatically updates apps by default so they can suddenly look different later. And even then, so what? If the change was malicious just stop using it? Apps are sandboxed, websites are sandboxed, you'll be fine.
  • ValentineC 3mo ago
    > Enforcement is minimal, especially since you can selectively roll out updates to make it unlikely that a reviewer gets it. What's worse is that there's practically no process to report any sort of rulebreaking, so someone could be mining crypto or running a residential proxy [1] through the mobile game I've been playing, and I'd be none the wiser. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48864252 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48864252
• dd8601fn 3mo ago
  Not really, no. Not that it doesn’t occasionally happen, but at that point you’re trying to dodge the police… as compared to there being no police in the first place.
  • afavour 3mo ago
    In this case the police are not watching. Apple does a cursory review during the approval process but they are not proactively firing up your app to see if anything changed post-review.