Study Finds Up to 2% of Top 1,000 Paid Apps on App Store Were Scams

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By Tim HardwickJun 7, 2021, 9:33 am279 pts
Apple has used its app review process as a bulwark in recent legal assaults on its App Store policy, and put particular emphasis on the security benefits for iOS users when buying apps. However, an investigation has found that almost 2% of the top 1,000 highest grossing apps on a given day were some sort of…

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