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> I know they have insanely high and probably unreasonable standards for their app store

[2022] https://lifehacker.com/great-now-the-apple-app-store-has-mal...

[2022] https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/malic...

[2024] Fraudulent LastPass-impersonating app allowed in App Store: https://blog.lastpass.com/posts/2024/02/warning-fraudulent-a...

[2024] "Scammed by the top result for 'Bitcoin wallet' in Apple App Store": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39685272

[2020] Scam subscriptions: https://blog.lockdownprivacy.com/2020/11/25/how-to-make-8000...

[2015] Thousands of malware-containing apps built using infected version of XCode slip through App Store review: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34338362

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Quickly looked at all those links and without any more commentary from you, I guess I feel like my point stands.

Those all fall under the category of shitty apps I would never install on my iPhone or Android phone. So, Apple's privacy standards and policies, and walled gardens for better or worse, kept me closer to what I was looking for regarding personal privacy and security than I could have gotten with Android. Who knows if anyone checked those same apps I use to see if the Android versions are different or contain malware, but my sense is that it's much easier to slip it in the Play Store than Apple's App Store.

One more example since you mentioned shitty apps...

https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/672xcq/nytimes_how_u...

Uber did this and didn't get abruptly terminated from Apple developer program...

I think the point is that you're putting too much faith in App Store Review. App Store Review is neither necessary nor sufficient to protect you.

Probably so. But still, I feel like Apple did a better job than Google did and I understand that’s an opinion and everyone has one.

Fdroid had none of these issues, Apple had lots of examples.

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3rd Party store - 1

> Apple's privacy standards and policies, and walled gardens for better or worse, kept me closer to what I was looking for regarding personal privacy and security

Apples privacy policy allowed bad actors into the App Store. Considering the levels of Kafkaesque pissing about we see reported on here from devs for non-issues, on a weekly basis, you should have a zero tolerance.

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