Windows 10 for phones has a huge problem: its app store is infested with fake apps

However, phone sales are not its only problem: the Windows 10 marketplace seems to have become a mess infested with fake apps.

A search for the popular Traffic Rider game yields tens of fake apps that have nothing to do with the official game, but since Microsoft does not seem to exert any control on these apps, they just sit there to confuse users. Try finding the real Traffic Rider game (which is in fact available on Windows 10 for phones) among the dozens of fake apps with a similar name. Sure, once you start looking closely, you will see that most of them are spelled with a typo on purpose: there is 'Traffic.Rider.', then there is 'Traffic Rider.....", then 'Traffic Rider_', and the list just goes on and on.

Truth be told, there is a dropdown that allows you to specify that you are not just looking for apps, but for games in particular, and if you are clever enough to pick that option, you will only see the real game, but for most people, searching for Traffic Rider in the Marketplace will result in a ton of confusing results and the chance of downloading a fake app is quite high.