Amazon has no idea how to run an app store
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Amazon has no idea how to run an app store
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Re: Amazon has no idea how to run an app store
#2In fairness, it seems this is true for Apple (broken review process) and Google (malware infestation).
Oddly, I haven't heard one horror story about the Windows Phone app store.
Re: Amazon has no idea how to run an app store
#3This is perhaps the key bit of silliness:
"And this is where we run into the first bit of craziness. Amazon decided that they should model the Alexa app store after the iPhone app store. So there is a certification process to get your app into the store. But think about the difference: you are not uploading a binary file to the Alexa app store, you are simply registering an URL. So Amazon has no real control over your software. You could get an app approved, and then you could swap out the app for any other app, and the Certification team at Amazon would never know. They don’t control your code. Your code is not in their store, so they have no control over what you do. And yet they modeled this process after the iPhone store, where Apple does have control over your app."
But that doesn't get at how crazily broken the certification system. You have to read the quotes from the other developers to understand that.
Re: Amazon has no idea how to run an app store
#4This is my take on it here: http://ocean-of-storms.com/tsatsatzu/explaining-amazons-indi...
Re: Amazon has no idea how to run an app store
#5In fairness, it seems this is true for Apple (broken review process) and Google (malware infestation). Oddly, I haven't heard one horror story about the Windows Phone app store.
Google Play does not have a "malware infestation". I have never once downloaded any malware, lookout has never detected any malware on my phone and I've never known anyone who has downloaded malware from Google Play. Anecdotal for sure, but given you said "infestation" you'd think I'd be crazy to download anything at all from Google Play. Absolute nonsense.
Re: Amazon has no idea how to run an app store
#6In fairness, it seems this is true for Apple (broken review process) and Google (malware infestation). Oddly, I haven't heard one horror story about the Windows Phone app store.
What is broken about Apple's review process? Sure it's stringent, but is that not a good thing?
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#7In fairness, it seems this is true for Apple (broken review process) and Google (malware infestation). Oddly, I haven't heard one horror story about the Windows Phone app store.
The Windows store is flooded with fake and scam apps.
http://www.howtogeek.com/194993/the-windows-store-is-a-cessp...
http://forums.windowscentral.com/general-windows-phone-discu...
Re: Amazon has no idea how to run an app store
#8In fairness, it seems this is true for Apple (broken review process) and Google (malware infestation). Oddly, I haven't heard one horror story about the Windows Phone app store.
Google Play does not have a "malware infestation". I have never once downloaded any malware, lookout has never detected any malware on my phone and I've never known anyone who has downloaded malware from Google Play. Anecdotal for sure, but given you said "infestation" you'd think I'd be crazy to download anything at all from Google Play. Absolute nonsense.
Actually, based in the stats I've seen in the past (I can go hunting for them if needed), you would be crazy to download "anything at all" from the Play store, in the sense that the probability of a randomly-selected app harboring malware or privacy-invading practices is much higher than in the Apple App Store. But this is also like saying that you'd be insane to follow a random URL from your inbox; any random link is probably a phishing site or spam Viagra store, but you are unlikely to select one of those URLs by intent. Likewise, the vast majority of dangerous Android apps aren't ever going to appear on your radar, but that doesn't mean they aren't out there, just that they're poorly-targeted. (The Windows store, by contrast, was at one point full of questionable apps impersonating major brands, which is a much more obvious threat model.)
Re: Amazon has no idea how to run an app store
#9In fairness, it seems this is true for Apple (broken review process) and Google (malware infestation). Oddly, I haven't heard one horror story about the Windows Phone app store.
Google Play does not have a "malware infestation". I have never once downloaded any malware, lookout has never detected any malware on my phone and I've never known anyone who has downloaded malware from Google Play. Anecdotal for sure, but given you said "infestation" you'd think I'd be crazy to download anything at all from Google Play. Absolute nonsense.
Indeed. This is so overblown it is pathetic.
Edit: I wonder what smut the down voters have been downloading that may have given them the malwares. Reputable apps are fine. And there's no infestation. Just stahp.
Re: Amazon has no idea how to run an app store
#10In fairness, it seems this is true for Apple (broken review process) and Google (malware infestation). Oddly, I haven't heard one horror story about the Windows Phone app store.
What is broken about Apple's review process? Sure it's stringent, but is that not a good thing?
Well lets see... You have to pay $99 a year, you need an apple computer to add an app to their store, it takes weeks or months to add an app, and I'm sure there's more.