Re:The End Is Near for Mobile Apps?
by JumpCrisscross on Monday November 05, 2018 @11:50AM
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> 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.
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.