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Fraudulent Apps Found In Apple's Store
snydeq writes Angry support queries citing problems with mystery iOS apps has led InfoWorld's Simon Phipps to discover the existence of several scamware apps in Apple's App Store. "If you're a scammer looking to make a fast buck, it appears that [Apple's App Store] process can be defeated," Phipps reports. "The questions originated from a support link for a $2.99 app in Apple's iTunes Store," which pointed angry customers to the Apache OpenOffice community, which doesn't even have an iOS app. The app in question, Quickoffice Pro, "simply displays a gray screen with the word Tap. When you tap the screen, the app exits." Further investigation has uncovered two other scam apps thus far.
What was that about Obama and Biden again?
I'm puzzled by this. I'm puzzled by the assertion that there are phone apps which actually do something useful. I thought they were all just for hipsters are techno-freaks to show how cool they are by spending a few bucks on an app which makes a pretty colour or farting sounds.
Nobody of any intellectual merit uses iDevices, so there is little scrutiny of Apple's "App Store", which for all we know could be full of shit like this.
It'd be like the rest of the world suddenly finding out that there's plagiarism in North Korean universities - stop the presses! what will the productive humans across the rest of the planet do!?
Try reading the NYT or Washington Post more often.
The US government have made it clear that we have no inalienable rights; any we do not defend vigorously will be taken.
Insightful? Really? For a butthurt fanboy whose mad somebody shit on his iDeity? Newsflash when ANY of the big three get pwned its NEWS FOR NERDS, last i checked this isn't "Cult Of Mac" is it?
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.