{"id":173570,"date":"2021-05-13T13:17:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T20:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/app-store-rejected-1m-apps-in-2020-including-rogue-gambling-software\/"},"modified":"2021-05-13T15:04:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T22:04:58","slug":"app-store-rejected-1m-apps-in-2020-including-rogue-gambling-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/app-store-rejected-1m-apps-in-2020-including-rogue-gambling-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Rejected One Million Apps in 2020, Including Chameleon Gambling Software"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple said Tuesday it turned down almost a million apps from inclusion in its App Store in 2020. Around 95,000 of these were rejected because of \u201cfraudulent violations,\u201d the tech giant said.<\/p>\n

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Apple has admitted that its vetting process does not catch every single rogue app. (Image: Android Authority)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These included so-called chameleon apps<\/a>, which can surreptitiously transform from innocuous-seeming software into casinos or pornography apps to reach markets where such things are illegal.<\/p>\n

Additionally, some 150,000 prospective apps were nixed because they were \u201cspam, copycats, or misleading to users,\u201d while 215,000 were removed because they collected too much user data or broke privacy rules.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Threats have been present since the first day the App Store launched on iPhone, and they\u2019ve increased in both scale and sophistication in the years since,” the company said in a statement. “Apple has likewise scaled its efforts to meet those threats, taking relentless steps forward to combat these risks to users and developers alike.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bad Apples<\/strong><\/h2>\n

However, the Cupertino, California-based company conceded there was room for error and that some rogue apps do slip through the net.<\/p>\n

It uses a combination of automated checks and 500 human reviewers to review roughly 5 million apps a year. It is \u201cimpossible\u201d to catch every single rogue app, said Apple.<\/p>\n

In August 2018, Apple announced it had removed 25,000 apps from the Chinese App Store after being berated by China\u2019s state media for failing to protect citizens from gambling and pornography. Apple claims to abide by the local laws of the markets in which it operates.<\/p>\n

But in September 2019, Cybersecurity company Trend Micro uncovered<\/a> \u201chundreds\u201d of chameleon apps targeting the Chinese market \u2013 some of which were included in Top 100 lists and had been rated over 100,000 times.<\/p>\n

Epic Battle<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Apples\u2019 admission of fallibility comes as a high-profile antitrust case brought by Epic Games, the makers of Fortnite, has brought the App Store into hard focus.<\/p>\n

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Epic has challenged Apple\u2019s ban on apps having their own in-app purchases outside those offered by the App Store. The video games publisher says it wants to offer its own iOS app store so it can circumvent Apple\u2019s 30 percent fee on App Store purchases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Epic says the store is a \u201cwalled garden\u201d that traps users and developers in an anti-competitive market.<\/p>\n

Epic\u2019s lawyers have also attacked Apple\u2019s vetting process, which they have argued allows malicious or fraudulent software to proliferate.<\/p>\n

The spat blew up last August when Epic told customers it would attempt to bypass the Apple payments system for in-app purchases. That caused the tech giant to remove the game from the App store, cutting access for billions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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