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Apple Officially Bans Scammy Antivirus Apps From iOS App Store (theverge.com)
Fake "virus scanning" apps have plagued the iOS App Store for a while, and Apple seems to finally be banning them once and for all in updated developer guidelines it published last week. From a report: The updated developer guidelines, compiled by Paul Hudson over at Hacking With Swift, now includes a ban on apps that claim to "including content or services that it does not actually offer" -- something that includes any iOS virus scanning apps, seeing as it wasn't possible to scan for viruses on iOS with third party apps, since iOS's sandboxing prevents applications from directly interacting with each other or the core of the iOS operating system.
Virus scanners have never been possible on iOS due to each app not bring able to read the disk folders of other apps. So why have Apple been approving apps that claim to do so for years?
Another business idea bites the dust.
Will the poor souls that spent money on the apps and or in app purchases they may have had get refunded?
As I understand it, Apple reviews all apps. That means that Apple deliberately allowed fraud apps onto their store. Under US law that is referred to as aiding and abetting.
Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon what's the difference? All steal money from devs and control with walled gardens.
Until there is a virus for iOS, there is no need for an anti-virus package, free or otherwise.
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You can't scan your downloaded/saved files folder for something that could harm your PC when you connect it?
Would not be the first felony apple committed. E-book price fixing and collusion.
That would be Amazon, Apple tried to stop that felony and was punished for it.
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Malware != virus.
We will no longer support software in our store due to customer complaints.
This includes the recently popular book apps "How to flush away your money problems" (translated) and "How to upload python libraries when somebody already used that name". However, "How to screw the customer with Digital Rights Management" will still be available (free for all members of W3C).
Apple does not sell eBooks.
The authors of eBooks sell eBooks, using Apples and Amazons and other platforms.
Before Apple collided with publishers, ebooks on Amazon were sold under the Wholesale Model just like physical books. That meant Amazon actually bought the ebook copies from the publisher at a set price and then Amazon sold its ebook copies at whatever price Amazon wanted to ... sometimes even a lower price than Amazon themselves had paid.
The point of Apple's collusion was to force ebooks out of the Wholesale Model and into the Agency Model. Unlike the Wholesale Model, the Agency Model does not require (or even allow) the distributor to purchase resellable ebooks. Instead the Agency Model demands that the publishers sell ebooks directly and simply pay a piece of the action to the distributors afterward.
It's obvious Apple wanted that change because it let them avoid the financial risks of the Wholesale Model. It takes a bit more looking to understand that the publishers also wanted to force that change because it let them protect their print business by keeping popular ebook prices from drastically undercutting hard copy prices.
You'll probably also say Trojan horse or Command & Control != Virus too.
Both have been demonstrated by security researchers to have been approved, and the only reason the app (and the researcher) have been banned is because they went public with it.
How many malware do you know of announce theirb presence?