Pulled Android App Forwards Private Text Messages
Love it or hate it, Apple's App Store approval process helps vet applications before they make it to people's phones. Developers of apps like the one discussed in this New York Times blog article don't even bother submitting these types of applications because they know they're not getting approved.
Yes, apps that violate the App Store's terms have made it through the approval process and into the hands of iPhone owners in the past. But one can argue that those apps have been still, in a way, "safe" apps, since they haven't caused any damage to a phone, and/or violated people's right to privacy.
I personally have been critical in the past of some of Apple's decisions to pull, or disapprove, certain apps from the App Store. One good example of this is the "Camera +" app that was pulled from the App Store after being approved for simply using a hidden API that allowed the phone's volume buttons to be used as a camera-shutter button when taking pictures.
Yes, Apple's app approval process needs improvement but, I'm glad that, as it currently stands, apps like the ones discussed in that NY Times wouldn't have made it into amines hands.
Do you like Apple's app approval process because it helps "protect" you from rouge apps? Or, do you think more along the lines of "it's my phone. Let me be the one to decide which types of apps I want to download" type of person?
Yes, apps that violate the App Store's terms have made it through the approval process and into the hands of iPhone owners in the past. But one can argue that those apps have been still, in a way, "safe" apps, since they haven't caused any damage to a phone, and/or violated people's right to privacy.
I personally have been critical in the past of some of Apple's decisions to pull, or disapprove, certain apps from the App Store. One good example of this is the "Camera +" app that was pulled from the App Store after being approved for simply using a hidden API that allowed the phone's volume buttons to be used as a camera-shutter button when taking pictures.
Yes, Apple's app approval process needs improvement but, I'm glad that, as it currently stands, apps like the ones discussed in that NY Times wouldn't have made it into amines hands.
Do you like Apple's app approval process because it helps "protect" you from rouge apps? Or, do you think more along the lines of "it's my phone. Let me be the one to decide which types of apps I want to download" type of person?
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