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Re:We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Ap... by rhinoceraptor on Monday June 17, 2019 @04:38PM (#20207106)
Do you really want 3rd party developers to be able to write apps that can introspect all other apps running on a phone?
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Re:We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Ap... by lacker on Monday June 17, 2019 @04:42PM (#20207157)
Yes. "top" and "ps" are pretty useful tools.
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Re:We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Ap... by rhinoceraptor on Monday June 17, 2019 @04:49PM (#20207224)
Those are developer tools, so of course they need to do things you would never want Slack to do, for example. Also, Apple themselves ported Dtrace to MacOS. If you want the ultimate computing surveillance tool, Dtrace is a good bet.
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