In 2022, Apple blocked more than $2 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions within the App Store. It has been reported TechCrunch.
It was noted that the Cupertino-based company rejected approximately 1.7 million applications for non-compliance with App Store standards regarding privacy and security.
“We’ve protected users from around 57,000 untrusted apps that don’t have the same built-in privacy and security protections as the App Store,” the document says.
According to the company, more than 153,000 apps rejected on the App Store last year were found to be spam, copies of official apps, or misleading.
In this way, Apple wants to show a potential threat while properly opening the iPhone and iPad ecosystem to third-party app stores, including the European Union, South Korea, and Russia, according to journalists.
In April, to comply with the requirements of the new European Apple law appeared for the first time Number of monthly App Store users in EU countries. According to the company, 101 million people use the App Store every month.