Any app that doesn’t meet the company’s strict security and sometimes moral criteria will be rejected, and users won’t able to install it.
While it’s not uncommon to hear of dangerous apps slipping into Google’s Play store, it’s nearly unheard of for Apple to face the same fate. Apple would not comment on the record.Īpple’s walled garden approach to Mac and iPhone security is almost entirely based on the inability to install apps outside the app store, which Apple monitors closely. But Apple was warned weeks ago and did nothing to pull the app offline. Yet still, at the time of writing, the rogue app - Adware Doctor - stands as the No.1 grossing paid app in the app store’s utilities categories. A popular top-tier app in Apple’s Mac App Store was found pilfering browser histories from anyone who downloads it.
