Windows Phone Store Increasingly Targeted With Fake Mobile Apps

An anonymous reader writes: A post by security company Avast says not only are a large amount of fake apps available from the third-party marketplace of the Windows Phone Store, but they also remain available for quite a while despite negative comments and other flags from end-users. Avast speculates that improved security and auditing procedures at rival stores such as Google Play account for the increasing attention that fake app-publishers are giving to the Windows phone app market.

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Re:If I was Microsoft, here's what I'd do.

[tlambert]

I'm not sure if this is legal or not, but if they made an iOS and Android emulator so you could run both iOS and Android apps on the Windows phones, some people might get a Windows Phone then who'd otherwise be getting one or the other because they figure they get all types of compatibility.

This would be the third worst tactical blunder of all time. The most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line"!

The correct thing to do is build Windows emulators for iOS and Android, rather than the other way around.

This will cause developers to target their development for Windows, rather than targeting iOS or Android. This get Microsoft native apps, and at the same time, detracts from having those same apps native on iOS or Android.

FreeBSD made the mistake of building a Linux emulation layer for FreeBSD, instead of a FreeBSD emulation layer for Linux, which would have had developers working on FreeBSD native code, rather than Linux native code.