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Originally Posted by bunglusu
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Apple wouldnt approve malicious software, neither would android.
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Apple and Google provide very little scrutiny on malicious software that goes into their app stores. A security researcher once submitted an app with hooks into it to see what kind of testing Apple folks did before it got approved, and they found that the app was tested for about a minute, IIRC. Doing any sort of rigorous security analysis would likely take months, even if Apple and Google could hire enough security people to analyze all of the apps that are submitted (which they can't).
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Originally Posted by bunglusu
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Same kind of permissions as instragram, gmail, tinder, facebook, etc etc etc.
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1. Google and Facebook are large, and a lot of people use their apps, so there is a high degree of certainty that their apps aren't malicious. With only 8k users, if you were doing something malicious, they might never notice.
2. Those apps actually have a reason for using a lot of permissions (eg, Google Now integration, integration between Gmail and Calendar, photo attachments, etc). Since your app serves static content, there is no need for any of those permissions except for network communication (to pull data from the wiki and p99auctions). That also likely means it wouldn't be too difficult for you to tighten up the permissions if you wanted security and privacy minded individuals to use your app.