This has to do with crypto, BIG TIME, but I need to preface this first. A bit of context.
I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with Apple.
A while back, for about four years, I worked in the tech sector, specifically the smartphone business, which means I had access to every new mobile product, both tablets and smartphones, designed by whoever, including Apple.
Back then I used to hate Apple because it made our life problematic. Customers wanted iPhones, but Apple wouldn’t ship them. Maybe they were constantly out of stock, or maybe they were trying to fuel demand. But whatever, it was an issue.
And at the time, this was about ten years ago, Apple’s model was extremely closed when compared to other manufacturers, and Apple products were significantly more expensive.
Fast-forward to 2024 and I’ve done a 180. I use a MacBook Air, an iPhone and even my earphones are Apple. There are four reasons for that.
ONE, Apple doesn’t necessarily make the best product, but it makes the most seamless product. For example, I’m writing this from a bog-standard MacBook Air M1 and I’ve got like 25 tabs open across two browsers, and it’s absolutely seamless.
This, by contrast, would totally break my Windows. I know this because that’s what I had before.
TWO, Apple model is still closed, a my-way-or-the-highway sort of thing, but other manufacturers, which used to be totally open back then, have transitioned towards a more closed model. Let me give you a plastic example.
Ten years ago, iPhone was the only smartphone with a closed candybar design, which means you can’t change the battery yourself, and it was the only smartphone with the micro-sim, and it was the only smartphone with NO SD card support.
It was the exception. Now, those three things are normal across the board.
THREE, Apple products are still expensive, but competition is also expensive now. Back then, Apple’s flagship (and only) smartphone was usually at least 20-30 percent more expensive than Samsung’s flagship smartphone.
Today, the iPhone 15 Pro Max is actually cheaper than a Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra – $1,199 vs $1,300.
FOUR, Apple products [used to be?] more secure. The thing is, everything Apple is closed and closed source. This makes it easier, in theory, to make sure bad actors don’t get to play in the Apple ecosystem.
So how DA FUQ was somebody able to list a fake, repeat FAKE, Curve Finance app on the App Store?
Curve Finance is a DeFi exchange and the app that appeared on Apple’s App Store was malicious.
It was taken down quite quickly, but it’s still something to worry about.
The fact that it was listed in the first place is unsettling.
And it happened before. In late 2023, Apple had to take down a fake Trezor app as well.
Apple, come on, you’re sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars. So when it comes to how frequently scammy apps surface on the App Store, “almost never”, is not an acceptable answer.
The only acceptable answer is “never, it’s just not possible.” And unfortunately that’s not the answer we got.
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