Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams
The worst thing is, people have this belief that Apple is somehow protecting them, so they offload the critical thinking to Apple and lower their own guards. For example, a person thought he was getting a legitimate Bitcoin wallet app, but turns out it was a fake and he lost his life savings [1].<p>edit: to be clear, I'm not blaming Apple for not stopping these scams, at their scale, it's just practically <i>impossible</i> to stop every scam, but by making their unrealistic promise that everything on the app store is safe, they are misleading people into this false sense of security.<p>1: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/30/trezor-scam-bitcoin-1-million/" rel="nofollow">https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/30/trezor-...</a>