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Re:The End Is Near for Mobile Apps? by kyriakos on Monday November 05, 2018 @11:11AM (#18383431)
True but for web apps you use the same way to give permissions to use your device sensors you would use for a native app. The only difference is that it doesn't pass through the app store review process and apple gets no cut for it.
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Re:The End Is Near for Mobile Apps? by JumpCrisscross on Monday November 05, 2018 @11:50AM (#18383786)
> for web apps you use the same way to give permissions to use your device sensors you would use for a native app

Which would mean any malicious site a user got tricked into visiting can access the native API. (Downloading an app is more deliberate than visiting a site and instinctively clicking to make the pop-up go away.)

All I'm saying is there are non-financial reasons why an OS designer might sandbox websites from the native API.

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