• jet@hackertalks.com
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    2 months ago

    Most people don’t know what a phone app actually is.

    That is 100% true

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      2 months ago

      Exactly. Is it just a webpage served up with some native UI buttons to make it look more glossy? Are app permissions implemented as separate system users under POSIX? How many apps are written in languages/frameworks running from interpreters, and how many actually touch bare metal? Are app media that use Gallery permissions duplicating data or linking to it?

      No one knows what an app is, the app development frameworks I learned 10 years ago are no longer relevant and have likely shifted to a whole new paradigm. If it looks perplexing to me, I can imagine it looks like magic to non-techies.

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      2 months ago

      Most people don’t know how a freaking toaster AKKSCHULLY works. Who cares? It’s of no consequence