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Thanks! I didn't know about XPC being on iOS... It's great news (especially in regards to Nitro-ed UIWebVIew), but still it's short of what intents are able to

Thanks! I didn't know about XPC being on iOS... It's great news (especially in regards to Nitro-ed UIWebVIew), but still it's short of what intents are able to do. For example, I don't suppose it would be possible to "announce" to the system that I, for example, do "image editing" by getting a "png, jpg, pdf" and returning a "png, jpg, pdf". XPC would mostly be used in a single app for further sandboxing and increased security/stability.

erichocean 14y ago
I don't have any inside information on how Apple will do things in iOS, but I see no reason why they couldn't do that. "Services" have been part of iOS/OS X since the late 80s/early 90s with NeXTStep, the precursor to both. I don't think Apple is deliberately not allowing services/intents in the manner you describe, I think it's just taking them a long time to figure out how to do it within the process and security model they are trying to enforce in iOS.