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Your app needs to be downloaded the first time too. In fact, a downloaded app can run riot on your filesystem. A web app runs in the "cage" of the browser, and
by osrec 7y ago
Your app needs to be downloaded the first time too. In fact, a downloaded app can run riot on your filesystem. A web app runs in the "cage" of the browser, and is arguably more secure and explicit about permissions it requests.
- rstupek 7y ago"... can run riot on your filesystem"? Citation needed because an app is as heavily sandboxed as a web page running in a browser. An ios app gets no view into anything you as a user don't choose to give it (no access to photos, etc).
- osrec 7y agoI mean, if you give the app access to your filesystem (which a lot of non-tech users would, almost without thinking), it can potentially access/modify/delete your files and folders. With PWAs, that's not really a possibility.
- LocalH 7y agoStock iOS doesn’t allow apps to directly access data from other apps afaik