>This incident seems to prove to me that a curated app store is the best way to keep a large monoculture safe from malware.
An even better way would be to disallow third party apps at all. There is definitely a trade off between encouraging the ecosystem to grow and fending off malware.
If that can be snuck in, is it far fetched to assume that an actual root exploit can't be?
http://gizmodo.com/#!5592521/how-a-guy-tricked-apple-with-a-...
>This incident seems to prove to me that a curated app store is the best way to keep a large monoculture safe from malware.
An even better way would be to disallow third party apps at all. There is definitely a trade off between encouraging the ecosystem to grow and fending off malware. If that can be snuck in, is it far fetched to assume that an actual root exploit can't be?