> everyone knows all the alls on your phone
On Android phones. iPhone doesn’t have this privacy deficiency.
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On Android phones. iPhone doesn’t have this privacy deficiency.
On iOS an app developer will need to register in advance which external applications their app intends to query, and the list needs to be very short and motivated. [1]
Incidentally, “I have a friend who says...” isn’t really a good citation anywhere outside Reddit - which HN resembles more and more each day.
[1] https://www.hackingwithswift.com/example-code/system/how-to-...
I snorted when I got to the self-important haughtiness about reddit.
Why?
- You immediately recognized what they meant.
- They weren't advancing a claim, they were indicating a basis for their interrogative, likely to avoid seeming naive when claiming it out of nowhere.
- The article we're commenting on describes the same mechanism you claim differentiates iOS. ("register in advance...which applications...intends to query, and the list needs to be very short and motivated.")
- I've worked heavily on iOS and Android since 2009. As close to a graybeard as you can get in mobile. I'm searching, reaching, grasping for any sign you've done anything other than Google and link the first article you saw, and I can't find _any_. At all. But I don't think that's wrong. You're trying. Why is it wrong for the person you asked to try too?
- There's strong signs you didn't read the article we're commenting on.
- If you had, it is unlikely you would have said iOS was differentiated, then laid out the exact same mechanism described in the article.
- There's strong signs you didn't read the article you linked.
- On iOS you can register URL schemes in a plist, these aren't "external applications you intend to query" and the list does not have to be "very short and motivated"
I get cranky too, but, I am grateful I recognize it is very reddit to cry Reddit and edit it out, or delete.
What could possibly indicate I didn’t read the article? Of course I read it. Isn’t your assumption of my bad faith also explicitly against HN’s guidelines?
> On iOS you can register URL schemes in a plist, these aren't "external applications you intend to query" and the list does not have to be "very short and motivated"
I’m also an iOS developer- and yes it does.