Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
by jaegerpicker on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @12:34PM
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Apple's own store proves this incorrect. Apple's App Store has VERY few instance's of Malware (at least in the sense of exploiting security issues). The App Store does have an ongoing issue with dark patterns and subscription fraud, no doubt but in general Apple's App Store is the by far the best and safest App Store for consumer. I'm an app developer and the App Store has more than it's share of issues like discovery and subscription fraud but ALL of those issues are worse on other more "open" platforms.
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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
by wvenable on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @03:09PM
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Isn't more a question of sandboxing than the app store itself? Installed apps on iOS just can't do every much.
What is considered Android/iOS malware these days is much more tame than what malware used to be. A cryptolocker on iOS is basically impossible.
Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
by dwaite on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:02PM
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There are a lot of non-technical requirements for the Apple App Store, for instance on what an application can do with bluetooth, local networking, contacts, photos, and location data - even after the user gives access approval for them.
Another great example is the target of the Apple/Facebook spat currently - Apple has not just said that the developer needs to go through the OS-dialog approval to use the IDFA (identifier for advertising) to track users, but to do _any_ cross-organizational tracking, including using mechanisms that Apple does not have technical protections for.
Apple developer accounts involve real-world identity verification, so that (hopefully) abuse results in an actual ban of the company and people rather than just of a throwaway account.