Except on the most popular application platform available of today: the web. Imagine if every website could read your system clipboard at will.
I'm honestly amazed and horrified to learn that smartphone apps on the 2 OSs have this capability. This capability, used legitimately, can only bring a very, very slight UX improvement.
At this point, we know smartphone apps exploit any avenue they have to extract data from their users, regardless of the perceived ethicality of their vendor. The smartphone vendors more than any others know this. If there's an entity to direct the blame towards it's Apple and Google for allowing this, when fixing it on their part would be so trivial.
> Except on the most popular application platform available of today: the web.
The web is not an operating system, for goodness' sake. A browser is itself an application no different from a terminal emulator + shell (which also is capable of running arbitrary other applications within its context).
> I'm honestly amazed and horrified to learn that smartphone apps on the 2 OSes have this capability.
Prepare to be even more "amazed" and "horrified": I am willing to bet that whatever desktop OS/distro you use does the same damn thing (providing apps with programmatic access to the clipboard or clipboards).
If you don't want other applications to access some data, for heaven's sake don't put it in what is literally a shared buffer between applications.
I'm honestly amazed and horrified to learn that smartphone apps on the 2 OSs have this capability. This capability, used legitimately, can only bring a very, very slight UX improvement.
At this point, we know smartphone apps exploit any avenue they have to extract data from their users, regardless of the perceived ethicality of their vendor. The smartphone vendors more than any others know this. If there's an entity to direct the blame towards it's Apple and Google for allowing this, when fixing it on their part would be so trivial.