Apple's archaic / convoluted process for shipping an app: - Xcode - Developer Mode - provisioning profiles - physically connecting the device to your Mac - $99/year developer account - DUNS number - TestFlight - App Store approval ...creates enough friction to explain why we haven't seen more interesting vibe-coded mobile apps, especially compared to number of vibe-coded websites with Claude / Codex + Vercel.

Apple sued over a fake wallet that drained $1.8M in Bitcoin Three plaintiffs filed in California on July 24, alleging an App Store listing impersonating Sparrow Wallet asked for their seed phrases and moved about $1.8M in Bitcoin to attacker addresses. Sparrow is desktop only, with no iOS release ever. Any Sparrow app on the store is fake by construction, and the complaint says Apple ranked this one into curated crypto collections. Losses ran 1.05 bitcoin:native to 7.4 BTC across mid-2025. Sparrow's developer flagged an identical fake in January 2024, and Apple later moved to terminate his account when he tried warning users. @Apple says it pulled the impersonators and shut the accounts behind them.

Apple sued OpenAI for trade secret theft, accusing the artificial intelligence startup and its hardware chief of engaging in a coordinated campaign to steal information about upcoming products