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If people judged Googles playstore with this criteria pitchforks wouldn’t cut it.

This post to me sounds like someone claiming spam filters are worthless because an email got across. The relevant metric is how many scams aren’t there, not how many have managed to stay for some indeterminate amount of time.




It's perfectly possible to criticize both Apple and Google at the same time.

If anything, these examples just illustrate why centralized app stores are inherently flawed, even if Apple's store is of much greater quality than Google's.

Corporate cheerleading is boring and elides that the greater issue at hand is about openness and choice vs. closeness and security. Examples such as TFA illustrate that despite corporate promises, their security is incomplete.


> This post to me sounds like someone claiming spam filters are worthless because an email got across.

If I'm literally prevented from using any other kind of spam filter, you bet I'd be complaining.

> The relevant metric is how many scams aren’t there

Would you please also prove there is definitely no teapot orbiting Mars, while we're at it?


> If I'm literally prevented from using any other kind of spam filter, you bet I'd be complaining.

Actually, you can use another kind of spam filter - your brain.




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