Those who read us regularly know that we not only like to inform, to transmit in a cold way. We often like to interact with you, create teaching articles (tutorials) and even opinion articles (as is the case). Because not everything is as beautiful as Tim Cook wants to paint it in the Apple and iOS universe. Although, it is true that the mobile operating system has suffered one of its most enlightened and open times, not everything was going to shine, the Tim Cook era is having its shadows too, the operating system is going uphill after going through its worst version, However, something that seems to go from bad to worse is the App Store. Not only the quantity has been increased absurdly, but the quality has been drastically reduced.
If to the increase of applications of very low quality, we add that Apple does and undoes at ease in the App Store, the result is fatal. It is totally true that the success of the App Store has always been due to the fact that to publish in it, you must comply with a series of rules and security requirements, which Apple employees have verified. However, the number of applications is increasing, the staff seems to no longer cope, the current elasticity of the operating system has allowed the birth a new niche of applications that were previously unthinkable, which is giving Apple a job, that it can't seem to bear.
Since the arrival of iOS 8, it is almost monthly that "illegal" and unethical applications creep in gradually without anyone putting any impediment. However, its rapid disappearance and elimination suggests that there really is a team behind it. Quality control seems less and less intensive, and it is not uncommon to see applications that should never have reached the App Store, because they are a real fraud.
The "System and Security Info" case against "Location for WhatsApp"
We get the news again, that Apple's censorship has acted relentlessly. The code of good practices of the App Store is almost infinite, in fact, I venture to say that there are countries whose Civil Code is less extensive. A famous hacker, placed in the App Store an application called «System and Security Info«, Which quickly allowed us to know the status of the jailbreak of our phone, as well as to know if we had malware in the database. After a few days, in fact yesterday, Apple decided to drop its mallet of discord on the application, deleting both the application and the slightest trace of it from the App Store, but ... Where are the limits?
The limits are set by Apple, now we travel to the "Payment Successes" section in the iOS App Store for iPhone. It is almost insulting, to find «Location for WhatsApp«, An application that promises to locate any of our WhatsApp contacts easily via GPS, a practice that not only borders on the illegal, but clearly goes beyond the moral. Thus, the application, as a scam that it is, receives a barrage of negative reviews, to which Apple is doing absolutely nothing. Apple does not care if the application is good, if the application is bad, or is regular, it only knows that it is a success in sales. For those less avid shoppers, they will fall into the trap. I usually read the reviews of the App Store before buying an app, in fact, I know that Apple returns the money in these types of situations.
Why Apple? Why do you remove "System and Security Info" and allow "Location for WhatsApp" to exist? Is it because one application is generating income for you and the other is not? Everything indicates that the App Store is losing quality in an unstoppable way, and they do not plan to do anything to remedy it.
Without discussing the benefits of System Security Info, I understand that an App that is useful to see if your iPhone with jail (a practice that Apple pursues, closing the holes through which it "sneaks") has some type of malware, it should not have been even accepted, for consistency in company policy; If it did not include that component related to the jail, it would be bad for its removal.
Another thing is that the App that is supposed to spy on your friends and family (and from what I see, many people have a very perverse concept of friendship, couple and family) is there making cash. Drunk apps with absurd prices there have always been, and human stupidity to buy them in excess, (when I bought the iPhone edge and finally there was an app store, there was one that cost an absurd amount that only served to show a diamond on the screen), but This seems to me that as much as it borders the limits of the Store with style, it is a tremendous tease that should not be there under any circumstances.
I also say that most scams are produced by the innate weakness of the human being to believe himself smarter than others.