The apps which have so far been identified as behaving deceptively and against the interests of the user include: Reports from security experts Thomas Reed in Malwarebytes Labs, Patrick Wardle of Objective-See and have revealed that not one but several App Store apps, including the best-selling Adware Doctor, access users’ private data against App Store rules and provisions in macOS, and have been sending exfiltrated private data to remote servers.
There’s no sort of quality control, it’s well nigh impossible to navigate, and frankly an embarrassment to a premium brand like Apple.Īnd over the last few days, it has become manifest that we can’t even trust the App Store’s products to respect our private data. In most parts, it’s like a jumble sale, full of items of doubtful origin, but if you look hard enough there are some real gems. What greater contrast than with Apple’s App Store? They may not be the cheapest, but I can’t think of any lemon which I have bought there. After bookstores, which have been my obsession ever since I learned to read, they are the best: well designed, plenty of hardware to look at and play with, friendly but not pushy sales staff, and products which I can trust to work really well. Apple’s retail stores are among my favourite shops.
