I expect apps predominantly rejected from the appstore to try to go outside it and those casino-like scams are accepted on the appstore.
Having passed the appstore review myself, they are nothing but very shallow (except for anything touching their revenue streams of course)
Saying that the phone will be full of malware with a normal install is just saying with other words that the iPhone sandboxing is trash, which it really isn't, it's well made.
I’m not worried about you or me. The EU is just wrong on this one. They are making the worst assumption about the average user, and that’s that they are tech savvy.
And how are you going to make those OS-wide popups with the iOS sandbox exactly?
Be sure that if apps could make it, they already would, appstore reviews or not.
There's some very strange communication on Apple side saying simultaneously that their phone is the most secure thing in the world on their website and pretending to the EU that it's Swiss cheese and that manual reviews kind of save the day instead. They have to pick one.
> I’m not worried about you or me. The EU is just wrong on this one.
No, I believe the EU is right here but very late to the party and not even pushing far enough if I'm being honest. There's some talks need to allow OS reinstalls and I don't see any yet.
I’d like it if Apple restricted VPN access for only App Store approved apps.
Again, it’s not you who I’m concerned about. It’s everyone else. It’s not hard, watch:
here you go dumb teenager, download this crypto app and hit accept on everything and get mining this new alt coin
Boom, vpn enabled and traffic intercepted.
The contribution of the review here (which this kind of malware would easily pass with a server side trigger anyways) doesn't seem that important.
I don't think Apple should restrict which VPN can go though anyways just because of the privacy issues in a lot of dictatorships, they're aren't the best party to do that and are subject to dubious requests, as seen as in China or Russia.