> If browsers get great sandbox features and hardware acceleration with access to all sensors will there be a future for apps? Sounds like surveillance hell. W

> If browsers get great sandbox features and hardware acceleration with access to all sensors will there be a future for apps? Sounds like surveillance hell. Websites already abuse "location" permissions to scoop up data on their users. There's no way this pattern of behaviour won't extend to every other input on a phone. And you can't firewall an SPA from "phoning home" because phoning home is often essential to its basic function. Not that apps are much better in this regard thanks to the lack of user freedom on iOS.