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Re:Malicious apps infect 25M Android devices with 'Agent Smi... by z3t4 on Thursday July 11, 2019 @02:25PM (#20414039)
Apple also planned to sandbox all apps. But developers wanted bare metal performance.
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Re:Malicious apps infect 25M Android devices with 'Agent Smi... by scarface74 on Thursday July 11, 2019 @05:07PM (#20415856)
Sandboxes apps has to do with the permissions not having “metal performance”. iOS apps compile down to ARM native code. Unlike most Android apps that run on top of a VM.
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