[danpalmer]

It might not "solve" the problem, but I'd expect it to significantly address the problem no?

I've heard much criticism of it being too heavy-handed, but I don't think I understand criticism that it won't improve security. Could you expand on that?

[tremon]

No. You seem to be implicitly arguing that that unsigned apps are inherently less trustworthy than PlayStore apps. That's a claim that needs to be proven first. And based on the huge amount of documented data exfiltration performed by Google-approved apps, I'm going to say that claim is false.

[danpalmer]

I'm arguing that a curation process that includes security review is likely to produce a more secure set of software. Admittedly it might be completely ineffective, but I think that's an unreasonable assumption. So some review is more secure than no review. Now I'm not saying "better", you could argue it's a false sense of security, but it's still more security.