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More Trouble In Apple's App Store

Posted by kdawson on from the phish-travel-in-squools dept.

quickOnTheUptake writes in to update the story of foul play in Apple's App Store, which we talked over on Sunday. The Next Web, which broke the story, now provides evidence of rampant App Farms used for theft in the store. Here is a summary of the problems TNW has seen, which includes large-scale break-ins of the App Store accounts of users worldwide. Apple has responded to the initial reports, has disabled the account of the initially fingered rogue developer, and has called on those whose accounts were misused to change their password and credit card. Both TNW and Engadget, at least, believe the problems go far deeper than Apple is admitting.

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  1. But they were approved! by Kohenkatz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wait, wasn't this the whole reason Apple wanted to approve apps - so they could keep the garbage out?!

    1. Re:But they were approved! by ergo98 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      So a total of 48 apps out of 200,000+ were bad 'Apples', and suddenly the entire App store is a 'dismal failure'

      Still trying to figure out who you are quoting with the dismal failure bit. Or are you setting up a strawman, ready for the heroic striking down?

      However there are countless terrible, terrible apps in the App Store. There are countless terrible, terrible apps in the Android market. The difference is that one of these claims that they curate their market (comparing themselves to a fine museum) -- their founder openly saying that user privacy is why they curate their market -- and the other makes no such notion (but instead protects privacy by forcing apps to declare rights requests that users need to allow). I'll let you guess which is which.

  2. So much for app review by Mark19960 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What happened there?
    They won't allow flash or 'widgety' apps yet allow apps that do noting but get the developer points.
    A developer with almost 5,000 apps?
    So much for that 200,000 apps in the apple store.... perhaps half are fake?

  3. Re:Steve Jobs = Emmanuel Goldstein? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Apple gets tons of coverage when they do something good, so they will likewise get tons of coverage when they do something bad.

    You can't have your cake (pervasive marketing and mindshare) and eat it too (bad stories swept under the rug).

  4. Re:Steve Jobs = Emmanuel Goldstein? by WankersRevenge · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm not complaining about slashdot reporting stories ... I'm saying that any Apple story - whether it be positive or negative - turns into people screaming their hatred for the company like it were a picture of Emmanuel Goldstein. In the ten years I've been visiting the site, I've seen this only happen to two companies: Microsoft and SCO.

    My point: Fuck apple ... I don't care about their rep ... it's this blind parroting that makes for a shitty discussion. If I wanted that ... I'd head over to Digg.

  5. Re:Approved apps? by billy8988 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nah...that's MS yardstick. If a rogue developer hijacks IE then it's a MS problem. If a rogue developer does something to Appstore then it is that damn rogue developer.