On 10/01/2012 12:24 AM, Matt wrote:
Sorry if this isn't the right place to suggest things like this, if you
could direct me to the right place then that would be appreciated :)
Ok, so last night me and a friend are having an iOS vs Android debate, me
obviously backing android. The only major concern we both shared with
Android was how easily a malicious developer could get an app onto google
play and then have it downloaded by basic users not really knowing what to
look for in the authenticity of apps.
We just thought maybe there should be two layers to google play apps, one
where the source of an apk is explored by an employee and confirmed to be
safe and another where the app has not been confirmed (or verified) to be
safe. Both being accessible just the latter disabled by default. After an
app has been downloaded say 1000 times it's put in a queue to be verified
and if found to be malicious is nuked.
Not sure what you guys think.
I would doubt that ANY human beings even look at the apps submitted to
Apple. They probably run them through some automated testing and if
anything is flagged THEN a human looks at the app. Also as mentioned
here Google is now scanning apps. It used to be when you submitted an
update it appeared immediately. Now it may take some time maybe as much
as an hour or two. Amazon also runs Android apps through testing too
but again it is probably mostly automated. Two of my recent updates
were approved in a couple days on Amazon and the last took two weeks but
I presume that there were a plethora of new apps for fall release (very
common in the software industry to meet the holiday rush) and for their
new Kindles.
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