According to the Economist, in fact, the fake App has always been, but it is clear that today's designers behind the increasingly sophisticated technology, not only to make its logo, appearance and content, etc. looks almost the same with the genuine App , And many have been able to fool over the top two app stores in the world, the Apple App Store and Google Play censorship, resulting in an increasing number of shelves. A similar situation is also found in other third-party App stores, and the situation is even more Serious.
The report points out that the reason why counterfeit App is getting rampant is mainly because designers find there are two major loopholes that can be drilled. One is that some genuine App only shelves one of the App Store and Google Play, so as long as they can get in The other one is that so far some enterprises still only have websites but no App. In addition, there are also counterfeit App simply plagiarism genuine App, expected to download anyway, may not distinguish subtle differences .
Economists have conducted surveys and found that half of Google Play's top 50 most popular apps are fake, including fake video streaming apps like MyGoogleTranslate and fake Netflix faking Google Translate. Said it has stepped up audits of all its shelves and will take all necessary moves.
Eliran Sapir, Apptopia expert at App Technology Services Inc., said there are more and more impersonation apps, mainly because designers can easily win big advertising dollars, and as far as he knows, these paying advertisers are mostly small As long as one person downloads the App and selects their ads, it pays designers $ 1 a year, and if there are 15,000 people downloading, $ 1,250 a month can be earned, compared to an online advertising research firm InMobi's statistics show that in the same situation, genuine websites generally earn only about $ 1,000.
Some hackers also advertise hidden virus tags through these fake apps, as long as the downloader clicks will cause the device software to poison. Statistics show that about 20% of Google Android system-compatible counterfeit App contains virus.
Another expert warned that every year at the end of recent years, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas retail sales peak season, is particularly rampant when counterfeit App, mainly because during this period you want to find cheaper goods through Merchants App consumers increased substantially than usual .