>"and that has always been disallowed".
And it's always been a stupid rule. If I ship an app with a browser view, I can run any custom code I want in it. The rule is just a bandaid on Apple's lack of true sandboxing for apps.
And it's always been a stupid rule. If I ship an app with a browser view, I can run any custom code I want in it. The rule is just a bandaid on Apple's lack of true sandboxing for apps.
That's not it at all. If an app can run arbitrary code then it can run other apps and that can by-pass the app store. They are specifically trying to prevent something like Wechat on the iPhone. It's not about security, it's about money and control.
Apple's not picking up the phone for 50 million users. So we shouldn't expect anything different here.
Luckily there are other phones and mobile os's to develop for.
The most battle tested sandbox... after operating system. After all, browsers rely on the OS to provide the primitives for their sandboxes.
And curiously those primitives are not exposed by iOS.