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Everyone knows all the apps on your phone

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1192 points gniting | 4 comments | 29 Mar 25 21:26 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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turblety ◴[30 Mar 25 05:53 UTC] No.43521702[source]▶
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 introduced by Apple/Google so they could scrape a huge percentage in sales.

Web browsers have good (not perfect) sandboxing, costs no fees to "submit" and are accessible to everyone on every phone.

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baxtr ◴[30 Mar 25 06:41 UTC] No.43521900[source]▶
How would you make a video app in a browser? ie taking videos and then editing them afterwards
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1. psychoslave ◴[30 Mar 25 06:54 UTC] No.43521963[source]▶
Do you mean something like https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:VideoCutTool ?
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2. baxtr ◴[30 Mar 25 07:01 UTC] No.43521991[source]▶
I mean something like CapCut that has access to the phone camera for capturing video.
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3. worksonmine ◴[30 Mar 25 08:48 UTC] No.43522545[source]▶
Browsers have camera and local file access if the user grants permissions, what do you mean isn't possible with the browser?
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4. psychoslave ◴[30 Mar 25 13:16 UTC] No.43523935{3}[source]▶
I think that the name browser is basically just what is putting people in the wrong track of interpretation. They have been fully fledged VM sandboxes, which incidentally happen to also embed html and pdf interpreter natively.