Well, how did it do? A fluid interface and design made it fare very well for getting apps noticed and letting people notice them. And as for the third reason, the App Store has gone five years without a single malicious app being found. But now, for the first time ever, an app with malware made it into the App Store.
This app was called Find and Call. While it wasn't a top selling app, it had a lot of downloads, mainly from Russians, because the description text was in Russian. It served as a address book, where you would keep the information of your contacts so you could call them.
But that's not all it did. Apparently, the app stored information about the contact information of the user in the developers servers. The company then sent text messages to these users advertising the application. The developer had found a way to make it appear as if the text message was from the user of the app. In addition to this, the information of the users contacts was sent to companies that would spam them.
Luckily, however, less than a month after the release of the app, some users were able to contact the developer of the app, who claimed that the spamming was due to a bug. Knowing that this information was false, they contacted Apple, who promptly removed the app from the App Store.
“The Find & Call app has been removed from the App Store due to its unauthorized use of users’ Address Book data, a violation of App Store guidelines,” said Apple. They also noted that iOS 6 will include notifications when third-party apps access users' data.
