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Their business model depends on you not looking too closely here. Apple has a lot of legitimate advantages, but they oversell the safety of the App Store quite
by rpdillon 2mo ago
Their business model depends on you not looking too closely here. Apple has a lot of legitimate advantages, but they oversell the safety of the App Store quite a bit, and they also have an infamous review process for apps that deliberately hides both the reasoning and any sort of estimation of false positive / false negative rate. Google should have these sort of stats as well, but obviously neither company would publish them. False negatives should be observable by the public.
I'm a fan of letting users add repos from vendors they trust, so there isn't one centralized gatekeeper.
- dinkblam 2mo agooverselling the safety is very euphemistic many years ago we made a list of malware apps on the Mac App Store: https://www.corecode.io/_malware_on_the_macappstore.html https://www.corecode.io/_malware_on_the_macappstore.html (yes, the list was made after being disgruntled because totally legitimate apps were refused for nonsense reasons just like in this story)