The beginning of the end for scammers and fraudsters?

Now, the button is back, and with a lot more power.

That’s fine, but what difference will it make?

View from above of someone with fingerless gloves typing on a laptop to indicate an internet scammer.

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And why has it taken so long?

Surely Apple notices these at the app review stage?

Isn’t that what app review is for, after all?

Scams “trick people into giving up money or information.

Instead, Apple has decided to rely on user reports to identify scams.”

But the App Store isto stretch this metaphorthe only convenience store in town, so there’s no choice.

Apple needs to clean the place up.

The storegenerates $64 billion a year, so a small budget might be available to fix the issues.

Could Apple’schange in policybe the beginning of that Bunco Squad?