Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams

Re:Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams by nwienert on Sunday June 06, 2021 @04:32PM (#27416055)

Punishing companies for adding protections to their products is an insanely backwards incentive. May as well turn off sandboxing, and lock screens. If they ever break, it’d be a liability!

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Re:Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams by matheusmoreira on Sunday June 06, 2021 @04:43PM (#27416149)

Nah. If you're gonna set yourself up as the ultimate arbiter of what I can run on my device, you are absolutely to blame for any harm that comes as a result.

Protections? Encryption is protection. Address space randomization is protection. This Apple review process? This is just humans failing to do what's expected of them. Also known as negligence.

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Re:Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams by tekknik on Monday June 07, 2021 @09:51AM (#27422598)

there’s a lot of faulting apple here, when you point out it’s a “humans failing”. Does this mean you understand the process completely and you can do better?

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Re:Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams by atatatat on Monday June 07, 2021 @11:27AM (#27423705)

Probably not,

which is why he hasn't placed himself in the position of "arbiter of what's right and wrong on phones", the way Apple has with their App Store.

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Re:Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams by tekknik on Monday June 07, 2021 @10:28PM (#27429990)

so then what’s the argument here, if not perfect, remove?

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