Google is clearly on a mission to make Android ever more like iPhone when it comes to privacy and security. But one battlefield where Android continues to trail iPhone by some distance is app safety and security. Despite its efforts, Google can’t seem to keep dangerous Play Store apps out of the headlines. And while its excellent Google Play Protect does a great job keeping many users safe, the threat is getting worse. But now Google seems to be more serious about purging the problem once and for all.
Cue the imminent Play Store mass app deletion which Google has just previewed and confirmed is now just six weeks away: “We’re updating the Spam and Minimum Functionality policy to ensure apps meet uplifted standards for the Play catalog and engage users through quality functionality and content user experiences.”
They work the same but playstore takes the trouble to smell for backdoors, malicious scripts et al something that is absent from APK downloads. Playstore also has the capability kuambia app developers waache umeffi kitu wewe as an individual huku kwa vumbi huwezi.