Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams

Re:Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams by granzymes on Sunday June 06, 2021 @12:58PM (#27414456)

>Why would they remove the ability for people to easily report apps?

Presumably for a reason. I don't work at Apple, so to spitball some possibilities:

* The "report a problem" button was being misused and had worse signal than other metrics Apple added.

* Legal or Public Relations pressed to remove the button because only a portion of reports were actioned (possibly because of the above point) and it was causing legal/reputational damage.

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Re:Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams by rchaud on Sunday June 06, 2021 @01:04PM (#27414498)

Even in this most generous possible explanation, Apple removed a quality-control check and didn't replace it with anything.

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Re:Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams by granzymes on Sunday June 06, 2021 @01:07PM (#27414525)

My point is that you don't know that they didn't replace it with anything.

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Re:Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams by saagarjha on Sunday June 06, 2021 @08:01PM (#27417536)

I don't see a replacement where I can tell them about scam apps, though.

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Re:Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams by smoldesu on Sunday June 06, 2021 @01:05PM (#27414507)

Maybe if it was something so innocuous they'd have made an official statement on it

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