> Apple has allowed (benign) root exploits to slip through their approval process in the past.
Citation please. To my knowledge, Apple has never allowed code through the official app store that would jailbreak or root an iOS device.
There have been, however, web based exploits that were quickly patched, but you can't really blame this on Apple's approval process. The most notable one of these was the PDF viewer exploit used by jailbreakme.com.
This incident seems to prove to me that a curated app store is the best way to keep a large monoculture safe from malware.
Citation please. To my knowledge, Apple has never allowed code through the official app store that would jailbreak or root an iOS device.
There have been, however, web based exploits that were quickly patched, but you can't really blame this on Apple's approval process. The most notable one of these was the PDF viewer exploit used by jailbreakme.com.
This incident seems to prove to me that a curated app store is the best way to keep a large monoculture safe from malware.