Because they have thousands of employees who have the time to look at the source code and determine whether it is malicious.
Nobody else would bother. That’s why meme language repositories continuously lead to hacks and vulnerabilities.
Nobody else would bother. That’s why meme language repositories continuously lead to hacks and vulnerabilities.
Right now you have a lot of piracy apps which are disguised as a "note taking app" and they passed the appstore review without any issues.
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All the relevant agreements can be found here, so if there's something that specifies this kind of overreach, I'd both be very surprised and interested.
Edit: oh, are you saying that such requests would be "Apple confidential information" so nobody would say if it happened?
> any information disclosed by Apple to you in connection with Apple Events will be considered and referred to as “Apple Confidential Information” and are subject to the confidentiality obligations of this Agreement
The definition of Apple Events:
> As an Apple Developer, you may have the opportunity to attend certain Apple developer conferences, technical talks, and other events (including online or electronic broadcasts of such events) (“Apple Events”).