What if your “phone’ was a Zero Client or VM.
What if No Apps are running on your “Phone/Device”?
What if your “Phone” is just a Tor client?
From: wg-uma-bounces@kantarainitiative.org [mailto:wg-uma-bounces@kantarainitiative.org] On Behalf Of Adrian Gropper
Sent: Friday, January 01, 2016 5:42 PM
To: Eve Maler
Cc: wg-uma@kantarainitiative.org WG
Subject: Re: [WG-UMA] Can Web standards make mobile apps obsolete?
The apps vs. standards landscape changes when a personal UMA AS becomes as accessible to consumers as a smartphone. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander - in that web apps will run even better on a personal AS that also loads apps.
I can imagine my smartphone with three kinds of apps:
· native apps
· web apps running on hosted servers with access to UMA-standard resources
· web apps running on my personal AS with access to UMA-standard resources
The third option has all of the benefits of the native app and the web apps with none of the downsides. A hybrid native app + personal web app running on a HealthKit-style platform (“Apple will not see your data.” is a very simple privacy policy.) and on my personal AS would be just as easy to install and use as any of the alternatives that leak “behavioral surplus” to either Apple or Google.
Adrian
On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Eve Maler