App Store is facing the same crisis of bureaucracy as government.

For things to work, we need to refactor to remove the upfront restrictions that stifle innovation, and replace them with meaningful enforcement for bad actors on the tail end.

If Apple really cared about preventing exploitation, it needs to stop pretending app review catches bad actors, and invest in identifying and removing them promptly when found…

...just the same way government programs become unweildy because fear of fraud creates draconian systems upfront that prevent people from accessing benefits from good programs when we'd be better off with enforcement systems that punished the few bad actors on the backend.
…and because Apple has failed to deliver the “safe” place they promise, we are going to end up with a less-safe place where it’s more difficult to cure harms from those that exploit the system with sketchy outside payments.

@agiletortoise

I'm pretty confused about how that would bring about a desirable effect. Your suggestion is to wait and catch exploitative app developers later rather than preventatively, because you believe these kinds of claims are pretend?

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/app-store-stopped-over-7-billion-usd-in-potentially-fraudulent-transactions/

App Store stopped over $7 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions in four years

Today, Apple announced that from 2020 through 2023, the App Store prevented a total of over $7 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions.

Apple Newsroom