OT - Apples fight against frauds on Appstore…

HolyMoses

This is horrifying news and facts about Apples Appstore - enormous fight against criminals and fakers/frauders…

How it is on Google Play Store?

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/app-store-stopped-over-7-billion-usd-in-potentially-fraudulent-transactions/

wim

Setting aside my marketing fluff filter for a minute or two, this passage is interesting as it's the first indication I've ever come across that gives an idea of the number of app reviewers there are.

"Apple’s App Review team of over 500 experts evaluates every single app submission — from developers around the world — before any app ever reaches users. On average, the team reviews approximately 132,500 apps a week ..."

It's also interesting that by those numbers each reviewer averages more than 35 submissions per day.

NeuM

@wim said:
Setting aside my marketing fluff filter for a minute or two, this passage is interesting as it's the first indication I've ever come across that gives an idea of the number of app reviewers there are.

"Apple’s App Review team of over 500 experts evaluates every single app submission — from developers around the world — before any app ever reaches users. On average, the team reviews approximately 132,500 apps a week ..."

It's also interesting that by those numbers each reviewer averages more than 35 submissions per day.

I believe a large part of the review process is automated, so clear functional violations would be flagged and then reviewed more closely by a person. I'm just guessing. Reviewing that many apps a week all manually would surely lead to utter madness.

wim

Yes, that is assumed.

ashh

Apple rumble.

Darkstring

So basically, alternate AppStores would let in most of the filtered filth, because nobody else has Apple’s resources.

michael_m

@Darkstring said:
So basically, alternate AppStores would let in most of the filtered filth, because nobody else has Apple’s resources.

Just like the Google Play store.