As a Google engineer, it's really saddening to see the Welchism completely taking over Google. There are more than enough examples showing focusing on bottomline to increase shareholder value doesn't work in the long run, but it's obvious the current leadership doesn't care.
Is Android just so good there are no major vulns anymore?<p>Does Apple have a comparable program?<p>I don't see a reference in the Apple materials about any bounty reward program for Apps vulnerabilities [1]. If this is true, then Google was going above and beyond and is now simply reverting to the mean so they can reduce any potentially excess financial spend. Maybe they don't actually care so much about their users after all? If they were shifting the limited funds to a more effective vehicle, they missed the prime opportunity to mention it (tongue in cheek, because Elgoog doesn't have <i>real</i> resource constraints).<p>[1] <a href="https://security.apple.com/bounty/categories/" rel="nofollow">https://security.apple.com/bounty/categories/</a>
This is really disappointing. Google play store was struggling enough with evil apps but it was the one “trusted” source.<p>A real opportunity exists for trusted and vetted apps.<p>I guess Google will just sell anything now