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Re:Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair by hokumguru on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @10:24AM (#19378893)
This opens up a wide host of negative side-effects including the extreme ease of malware. I'd say the #1 value proposition for the App Store, and why most iOS users prefer it, is the guarantee of virus-free programs.
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Re:Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair by headsoup on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @05:17PM (#19383907)
Why don't Apple/Google ensure AV/Malware protection is a default app? Why do we depend on Apple/Google protecting us from these big bad apps?

If not Apple/Google controlling it directly, I'd imagine there would be a reasonable market for malware/AV providers on mobiles, if not solutions provided by Apple/Google.

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Re:Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair by scarface74 on Thursday March 14, 2019 @08:37AM (#19388646)
More to the point, why do you act as if malware protection has ever been effective and not just a resource drain?
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