It ranked fourth on the list of most-dangerous places to get new apps. Massive mobile hardware provider Xiaomi’s App Store wasn’t great either, according to the report. One,, hosted 61,669 blacklisted apps, according to RiskIQ. But many of them are housed on app stores with questionable security practices. Some of them are “feral apps:” apps you download off of the internet and sideload onto your mobile device. Some app stores are preinstalled on devices from Chinese manufacturers (e.g. That’s down 20% from last year - which is good - but is still high. If you plan to use these online mobile app stores, you’ll need to create Chinese-language versions of your app. Where the store is not available, end users can obtain the Company Portal app from a number of documented app stores instead or the device manufacturer's app store. RiskIQ counted almost 172,000 apps on its blacklist for the last year. Getting apps elsewhere is much more dangerous, of course. That said, there were still 25,647 apps on Google Play that the company blacklisted due to risky, dangerous, or fraudulent code. China Mobile launched Mobile Market in August - one of the worlds first. This company reaches 1.1 billion monthly active devices and provides users with searches, AI assistants, plus an app store. Google’s improvements are starting to have significant impact as well: the number of blacklisted apps in the Play store dropped an impressive 76.4% in 2019, RiskIQ says. Chinese operators love the app store concept. You can’t get to Google from China, so Baidu took over and is now the biggest search engine. Especially Apple which has always locked down the App Store tightly, and increasingly Google as well, which recently banned multiple apps from Google Play due to allegedly fraudulent ad practices.Īpple treats its App Store like Fort Knox and rarely hosts dangerous apps. In addition, what Apple and Google are really good at is ensuring the apps on their platforms are high quality and safe.

In essence, they’re niche impact at best, in most cases.

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