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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by babypuncher on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @12:13PM (#26168742)
App stores do hinder this when they are resonably well moderated. Google makes almost no effort to do this. The extension markets for Firefox and Safari are comparatively malware-free next to the Chrome extension store.
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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @12:21PM (#26168836)
Indeed, the problem is scale. Companies like Google and Apple end up employing cheap, low quality labor to review apps and extensions instead of high quality technical personnel.

Bear in mind, if Google and Apple had to compete in this aspect, it's possible users would actually choose and prefer a third party store with better curation. So they'd have an incentive to improve their review processes.

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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by dwaite on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @03:56PM (#26171660)
> Companies like Google and Apple end up employing cheap, low quality labor to review apps and extensions instead of high quality technical personnel.

I will need to see evidence Google employs people to review third-party software.

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