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 @stroughtonsmith If I understand this correctly, what it boils down to is "there shall be the same rules for Apple and third-party apps". For example, if background execution for third-party apps is gated behind a pop-up, the same rules must apply to the Apple Watch. Granularity doesn't matter, as long as both Apple and the apps are on the same granularity 4 comments
 @miki I think ClownStrike would've happened regardless of whether Microsoft allowed API access or not – they had a broken parser running in a kernel driver, and that doesn't need any special API access to break. @jernej__s It needs you to be able to run in kernel mode, a capability which Microsoft wanted to deprecate for security software following Apple's lead, but was forbidden to do so by the European Commission. |
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@miki @stroughtonsmith Pretty much. EC required the same from Microsoft regarding security software – any APIs that are available to MS have to be available to 3rd party developers.