While Apple is currently under fire for upcoming privacy changes, a more immediate financial danger to millions of iPhone and iPad users has been exposed. And this is an area where Apple is a repeat offender, repeat offender, repeat offender, repeat offender.
New App Store Warnings Have Been Issued For iPhone And iPad Owners
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Following revelations that Apple facilitated iOS scams with profits “measured in the billions,” the company has now been spotted promoting new scams in its App Store that can cost users hundreds of dollars a year. . And some of the examples are breathtaking.
As an iOS Beau Novelle developer Remarks, “One of them doesn’t even do anything” despite charging users nearly $ 700 a year. With another Simeon iOS encoder doing a deep dive on an example that gives users free access to the app once they submit their payment information, and then automatically starts charging $ 12.99 per week after three days.
Like Simeon Remarks, all of these scams use Apple’s own integrated payment system, so Apple takes a direct share of the scammers’ profits. Apple refuses to say how much it makes from the App Store, but recent data from Apple’s Sensor Tower projects generated $ 41.5 billion in revenue in the first six months of this year alone.
Additionally, the App Store has made it increasingly difficult for iPhone and iPad owners to spot scams. Notably, the crooks were able to force five stars, the real obscure costs and dodge detection for months. Notably, a senior Apple engineer described App Store security as “bringing a plastic butter knife to a shootout.”
As a result, scam apps are currently being downloaded hundreds of millions of times with claims that a “scam app FACTORY” is emerging. In one of the most egregious examples, crooks have even managed to hide casinos in children’s apps.
As Apple prepares to launch its most advanced iPhones yet, the hard truth is that no matter which iPhone you own, visiting the App Store becomes a risk. And that must change.
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