1) It's effortless to build an infrastructure that handles reviewing half a million apps and hosting billions of downloads, and to scale up to those levels from nothing.
2) The app store review process doesn't serve its intended purpose.
If that interpretation's correct, how do you support those assertions?
#1 is demonstrably false, given the effort that many companies exert to handle reviewing and approving numerous kinds of content, and then vending that content to consumers around the world. Netflix, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Google are just a few companies that have large chunks of their organization devoted to approving content (be it movies, ads, apps, or ebooks) and then supporting the systems which host and vend that content around the world. Both are non-trivial problems and difficult things to scale at those magnitudes. To claim otherwise is disingenuous.
I'd also claim that #2 is false. Malware is not a problem on the App Stores, and I feel eminently confident as a consumer that I can trust apps purchased on Apple's App Stores. As a developer, the review process has caught bugs in my apps before they've hit my users, and they've also been quick to approve updates that address urgent bugs that slipped past both my and their testing. You may disagree with some of their policies and the review process does make mistakes, but I don't believe you can assert they're largely ineffectual or incompetent, nor do I believe you can claim the process doesn't offer benefits to consumers. What other software store is as confidently and easily used by consumers around the world?
1) It's effortless to build an infrastructure that handles reviewing half a million apps and hosting billions of downloads, and to scale up to those levels from nothing.
2) The app store review process doesn't serve its intended purpose.
If that interpretation's correct, how do you support those assertions?
#1 is demonstrably false, given the effort that many companies exert to handle reviewing and approving numerous kinds of content, and then vending that content to consumers around the world. Netflix, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Google are just a few companies that have large chunks of their organization devoted to approving content (be it movies, ads, apps, or ebooks) and then supporting the systems which host and vend that content around the world. Both are non-trivial problems and difficult things to scale at those magnitudes. To claim otherwise is disingenuous.
I'd also claim that #2 is false. Malware is not a problem on the App Stores, and I feel eminently confident as a consumer that I can trust apps purchased on Apple's App Stores. As a developer, the review process has caught bugs in my apps before they've hit my users, and they've also been quick to approve updates that address urgent bugs that slipped past both my and their testing. You may disagree with some of their policies and the review process does make mistakes, but I don't believe you can assert they're largely ineffectual or incompetent, nor do I believe you can claim the process doesn't offer benefits to consumers. What other software store is as confidently and easily used by consumers around the world?