> Windows failed to deliver this; the average customer never downloads an Exe from a newer publisher without terror. The average consumer is literally dozens of times more likely to trust a new smartphone app than a new desktop app.
Yet that trust is, for the most part, unfounded. There's a ton of malware in app stores - you can assume any app that contains ads is sending data about you to some shady server, for example. You can't even trust the most popular apps not to be malware [0].
Yet that trust is, for the most part, unfounded. There's a ton of malware in app stores - you can assume any app that contains ads is sending data about you to some shady server, for example. You can't even trust the most popular apps not to be malware [0].
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42651115