It seems a developer recently found a flaw in Apple’s App Store that could let a malicious app steal your contact data. Seem like no big deal? It won’t be, until your friends – and your clients – start getting nasty, infected messages. Or worse.
How did Apple reward him? By banishing him from the App Store for a year. This makes a good contrast with Google, which PAYS researchers who develop bugs. That’s what I think of as getting everyone’s motivations pointing in the same direction. By extension, researchers who discover Apple flaws are discouraged from revealing them to Apple. And then hmm, to whom are they going to reveal these flaws? Hmmm.