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Facebook Taking On Apple?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the there-can-be-only-five-or-six dept.

oDDmON oUT writes "Techcrunch has a piece about Facebook's Project Spartan, which aims to deliver app store functionality through the use of HTML5 in the iOS Safari browser. Given Facebook's shifting sands privacy stances, as well as their track record with their "trusted partners", I don't think I'd be alone in wondering if this wouldn't put a great big stake in the heart of the assertion that iOS is the most secure operating system in existence today."

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  1. creating a web site considered 'taking over'? by darkeye · · Score: 5, Insightful

    how is creating a web site for a particular browser considered as 'taking over' that particular browser?

    and how is this related to the security of any OS?

    (and how would iOS be a most secure OS among all OSs around? like, seriously? and how would this statement be relevant anyway?)

  2. Re:Competition! by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In the end, everyone will lose. Facebook will try to get as much data about iPhone users as possible; Apple will try to prevent Facebook from getting this data, and lock down iOS more and more. At the end of the day, iOS users will wind up with both less privacy and less freedom than ever before.

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