- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 14:45:40 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Kartikaya Gupta <lists.geolocation@stakface.com>
- Cc: Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com>, Greg Bolsinga <bolsinga@apple.com>, public-geolocation <public-geolocation@w3.org>
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Kartikaya Gupta wrote: > > I disagree with your point (1). Let me try to illustrate with an > example. Say there's a company that makes mobile devices. These devices > have a GPS unit but no internet connectivity. The platform on the mobile > device is proprietary and closed. Third-party apps are allowed, but in > order to use the location information from the GPS unit they are > *required* to follow the user-specified usage rules. (For the sake of > simplicity, let's say the usage rules consist of a duration, which is > how long the app can hold on to the location data). The platform > enforces this requirement by a relatively simple mechanism: the > third-party developers are subject to source code audits by the mobile > device manufacturer to ensure their code complies with the requirement. > If it does not, or if they refuse the source code audit, their app is > banned from the platform. Does this platform exist, or is it hypothetical? > If you can point out a choice in my example above that is neither > misleading nor confusing, I'd be much obliged. I think that at best, > it's a choice between the lesser of two evils. If such a platform exists, then I agree that _for that platform_, both of the suggestions you mentioned would be either confusing or misleading. However, if no such platform exists, this is an academic concern. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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