Because more than a week ago 5 million owners of Android terminals were infected by an adware, those from Google thought it was time to implement in the Android Market a system that would check applications for the existence of malware and other types of harmful codes. The system is called Google Bouncer and checks any newly loaded application, simulates its use on an Android terminal and searches its code for references regarding the existence of known viruses/malware. The system is extremely useful and will bring extra security for a platform that has been "eaten" from the inside by viruses for years.
Unfortunately, Apple's App Store is not doing any better either, but there we are not talking about viruses or malware, but about applications that are made only with the idea of stealing users' money. I'm talking about the applications which do absolutely nothing of what is specified in their description and applications that in reality they are clones of others already available in the App Store. Recently Apple deleted the clones to an application developer, but unfortunately what they found there is only the tip of the iceberg because there are extremely extremely many other applications of this kind in the App Store.
I assume that the engineers of the Apple company do not cope with the workload, otherwise I do not understand why so many bad applications are published in the App Store and deceive users. I think that Apple should learn something from the Google Bouncer system and I think that it should make its own one that can leisurely check the functionality of the applications and their similarity with others already available in the store. The way the App Store works now is harmful not only for users but also for application developers who will prefer to give up the Apple company's platform if others pull the plug and earn good money from the work of developers who make really useful applications.
Will Apple implement such a system in the near future? I don't really believe it because that would mean that they would admit that the App Store has a problem and I can't imagine them doing this.
