One can say that the solution to this is more control/power for the app store, but te opposite, the solution for this problem on computer was solved decades ago:
Open source software and more open and transparent platforms!
Today users of common brands of Android and Apple devices are really restricted in control of their devices, so there is very few ways to check what the system or apps are doing, inspect, firewall/limit things, go tinker inside the apps.
And as said by other people, most of the time you have auto updates forced on users and so app developer does not even have to really justify what changed and why.
Agreed. The only way reviews can be done is by stores doing the review based on source code, and have submitting source code be mandatory with automated builds before review. That is not something companies like Apple or Google would even care about, it is not in their interest, since it is not their problem.
The phone market is a duopoly, Google and Apple have the market shared between them. There is no need to really improve this situation for end-users. For me it feels like Windows XP all over again.
I am a happy user of a Linux phone. I very much enjoy and support Jolla and Sailfish OS, while also hoping for the Pinephone and the Librem 5 to take off and be available as an option for daily use.
Open source software and more open and transparent platforms!
Today users of common brands of Android and Apple devices are really restricted in control of their devices, so there is very few ways to check what the system or apps are doing, inspect, firewall/limit things, go tinker inside the apps.
And as said by other people, most of the time you have auto updates forced on users and so app developer does not even have to really justify what changed and why.