"Walled garden" does not mean "safe system". And it is not a prerequisite for a safe system, or vice versa.
You are saying you are happy in a "safe secure system".
In contrast, a "walled garden" is a prohibition on alternatives, not a source of safety. The prohibition of alternatives does not make the App Store safer.
If anything, it protects Apple from competing with safter alternatives! Like an app store only for children. Or an app store of formally verified apps.
Please correct me if I am somehow missing something...
There are still scam apps on Apple and apparently they don't get removed promptly either. This one was reported 12 days before the post was made.
Many of the comments in the thread are telling the poster that he "should have verified the app"
>It's possible that it's just because it was literally called "Bitcoin Wallet", >an exact match for your search, or boosted by fake reviews, or it was actually >an ad that you didn't notice. Though it shouldn't have gotten past review at >all
>But I don't really understand why you'd blindly trust some random app?
When things eventually open up, when Apple is finally forced to permit other app stores on their mobile devices, I'll take a hard pass on them.