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I still, will never understand the need for native "Apps". To this day, I have never seen an "App" that couldn't simply have been a website/webapp. Most of them would likely be improved by being a webapp. The only benefits I can see of "Apps", are the developer get's access to private information they really don't need. Yeah, they get to be on the "App Store". But the "App Store" is a totally unnecessary concept intr…
I still, will never understand the need for native "Apps". To this day, I have never seen an "App" that couldn't simply have been a website/webapp. Most of them would likely be improved by being a webapp. The only benefits I can see of "Apps", are the developer get's access to private information they really don't need. Yeah, they get to be on the "App Store". But the "App Store" is a totally unnecessary concept intr…
The most basic app, a notepad, I often prefer native. When I go between google keep or notion to apple notes I can tell the difference. If the text is long enough, the web apps just can not load the content. Just to confirm: I dumped all of my notes from my insanely large apple notes (about 16000 lines of text) and pasted them into Google Keep, Notion, Google Docs. With the exception of Google Docs the rest of them f…
So, one out of three webapps that you tested could handle this much text. It suggests that the problem for the other two is their implementation, rather than any limitation of the browser.
Of the two that failed, did you also try the app versions to see if they failed too? I really doubt the Notion app could handle 16000 lines of text.
This loan app is profiling people on the basis of race (Tamil, Odia) and religion (Qibla Direction Finder is used by Muslims, mandir apps by Hindus).
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Nope! Nope, nope, nope. If you're wondering how we got into this situation.. well, it's exactly stuff like this. Weird to see someone who's digging into it at all also making excuses for it.
No one ever said "I want to avoid a single extra click once every other month, so I guess I better irrevocably open my data/phone/life up completely to megacorp forever". And they certainly did not say this about tinycorp. People just absolutely suck at adversarial thinking, and good guys need to do it for them before bad guys can. Do you want organized crime blackmailing your politicians about dating apps and infidelity? Do you want to make it easy to do large scale targeting of ${vulnerable_people} the next time the cultural or political climate shifts?
Come on. Anyway shouldn't the phone OS itself handle this rather than apps launching apps?? If not.. just let people pick a payment option, and then throw an error if the option is not available.
> everyone knows all the alls on your phone On Android phones. iPhone doesn’t have this privacy deficiency.
iPhones are less of a privacy nightmare. One of the biggest incentives for creating apps is to scrape all kind of data from the users. Look at how many apps require permission to see you contacts. And how many actually need your contacts to function. That's why I'm still a bit surprised that many seem to be surprised by findings like this one here.
That is, again, not require but ask for on iphone. I have zero non-functioning apps on my iphone due to denied access to contacts. Even a chinese bluetooth light controller doesn't dare (while refusing to work on android for the same reason).
You can hate apple/iphone ecosystem all you want, but let's not sneak false claims into how they actually work.
I still, will never understand the need for native "Apps". To this day, I have never seen an "App" that couldn't simply have been a website/webapp. Most of them would likely be improved by being a webapp. The only benefits I can see of "Apps", are the developer get's access to private information they really don't need. Yeah, they get to be on the "App Store". But the "App Store" is a totally unnecessary concept intr…
How would you make a video app in a browser? ie taking videos and then editing them afterwards
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Long-time Win32 programmer here - yes. This is by design. To use an analogy, Windows is like a "high-trust society". There are functions EnumWindows() and EnumChildWindows() specifically for this purpose. See utilities "Windows Modifier v2.00" (when I first downloaded it there were many pages about it, but it's a sign of how forgetful the Internet has become that I barely get any results about it now even searching f…
How do you identify apps that you shouldn't trust? Sometimes trust is assumed only until evidence is given that trust shouldn't be given. Which makes no sense to me. Why was the initial trust so easily given? A solution is to not use third party apps but most people aren't going to go that route. The VM idea is a good option though.
Because this architecture predates the existence of the current privacy nightmare.
In fact it predates the general availability of the internet. How could a program you would install from a floppy/compact disk bought on a store behave maliciously if you didn’t or barely had access to the internet ?
And then it stayed like this because Windows is heavily marketed as being retro compatible.
I still, will never understand the need for native "Apps". To this day, I have never seen an "App" that couldn't simply have been a website/webapp. Most of them would likely be improved by being a webapp. The only benefits I can see of "Apps", are the developer get's access to private information they really don't need. Yeah, they get to be on the "App Store". But the "App Store" is a totally unnecessary concept intr…
How would you make a video app in a browser? ie taking videos and then editing them afterwards