Is there a difference on the Mac side of things?
Does Android and iPhone deal with this in the same way or differently?
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Phones are based on modern operating systems with lessons learned from the past so security is a priority. Windows has had the baggage of being backwards compatible for decades now, although they need not fully support things from the 2000s, but that sliding window has done a number on its security limitations. Specifically phone OSes quarentine each app and force it to only have access to specific resources (camera, mic, contacts, location…) when the user is actively using the app. With windows most everything is open by default and “using the program” is much less well defined. A program can simply run in the background and not even be in the task tray yet still demand to have full access to whatever it wants as it was full screened. Microsoft tried numerous times to get people to switch to a rewrite, but because they target businesses those businesses demanded their legacy programs be fully functional. With Android they learned what limits to apply and made always running in the background almost non-existent.
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