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I'm not sure I buy that requiring user opt-in to camera access is why the Mac app ecosystem is is much larger than that of iOS. Can you elaborate on what apps/i

• kmbriedis 9y ago
  Keyloggers which don't require any permissions, apparently
• icebraining 9y ago
  The problem with an opt-in system is that you have to sandbox the whole app (otherwise, evading the opt-in would be trivial) and therefore lock out any advanced access not explicitly listed as an opt-in permission. If you want an example, there's F.lux, which doesn't work (without rooting) on Android and iOS.
• sametmax 9y ago
  Everything that is either very low level or is used for deep introspection of other parts of the system. I'm not against sandboxing, but if there should be a way to say i know what i'm installing, go with it. Otherwise you will say good bie to new ways of debugging, alternative drivers, unusual way of routing network packets, innovative UI interactions that are not part of the standards widgets, or anything you haven't think of yet. The computing experience you have today is the result of all the stuff we fiddle with for the last 30 years because it was allowed to. It would be foolish thz big players invented most of it.
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