Apple is shooting itself in the foot with how often it lets flagrant scam apps into the App Store . It's doing so at precisely the time is needs to do better for iPhone user safety.

In just the last week, Freecash was removed for how it sold user data. Apple only killed it after it was asked about the issue.

At about the same time, a fake cryptocurrency app took users for around $9.5 million before it was taken down. Or to look at it another way, Apple earned between $1.425 million and $2.85 million from that scam, depending on whether the developer is charged 15% or 30%.

We've been at this a long time. The co-authors of this piece have been writing about tech publicly on the internet since before the App Store launched.

We also know that this isn't new. But it is escalating, and getting far, far worse and more prevalent.

We like Apple, we buy their things and we know they have billions.…