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Apple Wages Battle To Keep App Store Malware-Free (networkworld.com)
alphadogg writes: Apple is facing growing challenges keeping suspicious mobile applications out of its App Store marketplace. Over the last two months, researchers have found thousands of apps that could have potentially stolen data from iOS devices. Apple has removed some of affected apps since it was alerted by security companies. But the problems threaten to taint the App Store's years-long reputation as being high quality and malware free.
What's funny is that so many here don't like Apple that they hold it to a higher standard. Nike has been linked to many more human rights violations they blatantly ignore, and Apple's big sin is that they build in China (like everyone else, but it's somehow worse for Apple).
The suicide rate at Foxconn is less than an average American High School. Until a US president is brought up on crimes against humanity for NCLB, it seems a bit silly to condemn Apple.
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Why is this marked Troll? The human rights violations aren't ever mentioned around here unless Apple is under scrutiny. In fact, the hubub around here died down after made some changes, only for it to reoccur a couple of years later. Perhaps if it really were about human rights and not about dinging Apple's PR, the heat would have stayed on, other companies would be following suit, and Apple wouldn't feel comfy enough to let it happen again.
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No, they have never claimed to have 'fixed' the problem, because it is a problem that is unlikely to fixed anytime soon in China. What they do claim is that they have taken concrete steps to reduce the likelyhood of it happening, both by paying more money for services and by penalties for contract violations [which supposedly include things like workers hours/conditions/no child labor].
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Before I start, yes I'm an Android guy - but, I do have an iphone and ipad.
How.the.fuck do Apple fans justify that shitty app store? The search is OUTRIGHT BROKEN. It's BROKEN! There's so many fake / spam / SEO'd bullshit apps which come up when you search for something, it's fucking incredible.
It literally doesn't find the app I'm looking for, over 50% of the time.
I mean, I'm cool with tech companies not being perfect but this is the "Ever flawless" Apple who always get things right...? It's fundamentally broken.
I don't even care that the spam exists! so what? But at least fix the algorithm so when I search for "extremely well known app X" it actually returns a result of the "extremely well known app X" I'm looking for.
While I'm railing on them, one more thing* why in all that is !@#%$ing holy, can I not remotely install apps on my iphone / ipad from my PC? Yeah yeah, I'm an Android guy, I mentioned that,...
How can the Google Play store have had this for 3 years+ and third party Android app installers have had it for 5 years. FIVE YEARS.
I'm sitting on my PC for example, reading slashdot, someone says "hey blah blah is a brilliant app on my ipad, it really solved XYZ" I should be able to open a new tab, go to the app store, find the app and click "install to ipad"
It's nearly 2016. How is this fucking missing?
Worst part is, you ask this, even politely and Apple fans will tell you how "wrong you are" for wanting it. (I'm expecting at least a mixed / logical reaction on this site)
Outright crazy, poor design, backwards thinking. These are good features. It's nuts.
* Jesus I wish slashdot was still highly relevant, there might be a miniscule chance of an Apple person actually reading the post and fixing this idiocy.