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[Peter Cliff <pixelatedpete@xxxxxxxxx>]

While the webapp/app debate is interesting, I don't think this thread
should get sidetracked into a discussion on webapps vs. apps.

The security of any application on an Ubuntu phone is an important
issue. Seems to me that if Ubuntu want the device to be taken
seriously they have to provide some assurance that an app that
requests confidential information is legitimate. Is the click store
vetted? Is there a policy statement anywhere?

I'm guessing that is more an end-goal rather than the state of play
today - mostly because it is early days for Ubuntu phone - which is
fair enough.

On my bq I've avoided pretty much all of the applications (aside from
stock ones and Canonical ones) because I just don't trust them. That
isn't a slight on any of the developers nor the apps themselves which
I'm sure are fine. It is more because I don't know the answer to the
question raised in this thread and I don't know where to look nor who
is going to take responsibility for a rogue application.

While I accept I know "because I can read the code" as an answer until
I find time to read the code (i.e. never) I'll not install the app.

Pete

On 5 June 2015 at 10:52, Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 05/06/15 10:46, Davide Alberelli wrote:
>>
>> @Alan
>> Well, the "bookmark" is my experience with webapps.
>> All the webapps that I daily use are nothing more than bookmarks (gmail,
>> dict, OSM, Amazon, tumblr, various games, ecc) and often the websites
>> themselves say that I should use the native app for Android instead of going
>> to the website ;)
>> All the other features that you are mentioning sound definitely
>> interesting, but none of them are useful to me now, nor I have seen them yet
>> anywhere in my daily experience.
>> So, why should I use a webapp instead of going to the website? The only
>> reason that I have in my daily experience is because it is a nice bookmark.
>>
>> Davide Alberelli
>>
> yeah, I think those ones should not exist (or should be something else,
> there is no reason there shouldn't be a shared bookmarks and ratings system
> built into the platform, that used to be a popular concept, like
> stumbleupon)
> There are a few webapps that do contain some active code I think, google
> plus, facebook, gmail and so on. Stuff to fix the experience or add platform
> notifications or whatever. These deserve to exist, the bookmarklets don't.
>
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