Is Apple a Safe Haven or a Money-Grubbing Trojan Horse?

A fake app finds a home in the place Apple argues is safest of all.

Apple recently had to remove a fake app that looked a lot like the popular password manager LastPass from its App Store.

This app, which was pretending to be the password manager LastPass, was actually a rather bad fake, filled with spelling mistakes and errors that plenty of Apple users caught onto.

Rethinking Apple: A Call for Openness and Sustainability

Apple usually says its App Store is safe because they check all the apps, but this fake app still got through. They’ve been fighting tooth and nail against new rules that would force better interoperation and ensure that tech giants have a harder time gate-keeping their customers.

Their argument against interoperating, against better pluralism of competition? That allowing other app stores to operate on their devices could make things less safe for users. And yet this fake LastPass app was discovered in Apple’s own store!