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>>lkrubn+(OP)
In fairness, it seems this is true for Apple (broken review process) and Google (malware infestation).

Oddly, I haven't heard one horror story about the Windows Phone app store.

>>ceejay+11
Google Play does not have a "malware infestation". I have never once downloaded any malware, lookout has never detected any malware on my phone and I've never known anyone who has downloaded malware from Google Play. Anecdotal for sure, but given you said "infestation" you'd think I'd be crazy to download anything at all from Google Play. Absolute nonsense.

>>VeilEm+D1
Indeed. This is so overblown it is pathetic.

Edit: I wonder what smut the down voters have been downloading that may have given them the malwares. Reputable apps are fine. And there's no infestation. Just stahp.

>>JustSo+53
Malware-containing apps have millions of downloads, and there are/were thousands of them. One might argue if that is an "infestation", given the much larger number of apps in the store, but it also isn't something that has only happened once or twice.

And when it comes to e.g. games there isn't much of reputation information outside a very small set of hits. No need to download "smut".