Comment by concinds

That's how Steam works. I think it's a much more dev-friendly policy, because in practice there's really zero reason to review Adobe or Microsoft or OmniGroup app updates since you know they won't turn into scam apps overnight; it's weird to me Apple hasn't done a "Trusted Developer" program to exempt the biggest devs from this headache. There's no reason why the weird clone apps (like the app that shows up 3 results down, when you search for "1Password", that trashily has the exact same blue ring and keyhole but slightly different background) should be treated the same as apps by hardworking, honest, trustworthy developers. People would cry foul for unfairness but there's also no way of letting the hundreds of thousands of App Store devs all submit updates with no review, you'd end up with something like the Chrome Web Store where apps get bought and filled with malware all the time.