I think it's less that it doesn't hold and more that many people saying this are being disingenuous.
You’re “not forced to use them” in exactly the same way you’re not forced to use Apple.
I'm pretty sure they allow you to define safe areas where you can leave things without the lost indicator firing.
I'd guess it's skewed towards the former.
Maybe not from a security perspective, but WeChat has been extremely successful by virtue of implementing everything in one app.
It has the same concurrency semantics w/r/t IO as any other language that isn't using an event based runtime. If you wrote your app in C and used a single thread you'd have the exact same issue.
His point about wifi network polling is spot on. I noticed this exact issue once all of my meetings moved to Zoom. It turns out that location services on my Mac frequently poll all of the nearby networks, causing tons…
I think it's less that it doesn't hold and more that many people saying this are being disingenuous.
You’re “not forced to use them” in exactly the same way you’re not forced to use Apple.
I'm pretty sure they allow you to define safe areas where you can leave things without the lost indicator firing.
I'd guess it's skewed towards the former.
Maybe not from a security perspective, but WeChat has been extremely successful by virtue of implementing everything in one app.
It has the same concurrency semantics w/r/t IO as any other language that isn't using an event based runtime. If you wrote your app in C and used a single thread you'd have the exact same issue.
His point about wifi network polling is spot on. I noticed this exact issue once all of my meetings moved to Zoom. It turns out that location services on my Mac frequently poll all of the nearby networks, causing tons…