14 DAY TRIAL // After publishing an advisory on their support website for Chinese customers, Apple has now made it clearer what further steps they will take to make sure that XcodeGhost is the last malware of its kind to hit the App Store.
Phill Schiller Apple's SVP of Worldwide Marketing has declared today, during a phone interview with Sina, a Chinese online media company, that Apple is busy fighting back against the effects of the XcodeGhost malware on its iOS platform and its customers.
Schiller has admitted that, at the moment, the Xcode IDE can be downloaded by Chinese developers only from US-based servers, which makes their download times huge when compared to those of developers located in other countries around the globe.
As Schiller says, "In the US it only needs 25 minutes to download, China may take three times as long," but to be more exact, it takes a Chinese user 10 to 20 times longer to download such hefty packages.
Apple will provide servers based in China for Chinese developers and users
Furthermore, at the end of the interview, the Apple SVP has also taken the time to assure Sina representatives that Apple will make it possible for Chinese users to update their systems and to download software built in Cupertino a lot faster from China-based servers.
This should make it a breeze to get large software packages like the Xcode IDE installed on Mac computers from China, and will also make it easier for Chinese developers to get their apps published more quickly and without delays caused by slow Internet connections to Apple's servers.
As noted by Apple in the support article published yesterday and further emphasized in the Sina interview by Phil Schiller, iOS users who downloaded one of the XcodeGhost-infected apps will be notified.
Moreover, Apple has also said that all app submissions containing traces of the XcodeGhost malware will automatically be blocked, and that they're working together with developers to get each and every app that was infected and removed back on the App Store.