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Chapter 11. Howdy, Neighbor
Chapter 11. Howdy, Neighbor
PLAYING NICE WITH OTHER APPS
"GOOD FENCES MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS," poet Robert Frost tells us. According to Apple, good fences make good apps, too. The sentiment is baked deep into the iPhone OS, which purposely makes it all but impossible for apps to peek into each other's affairs. Every app is safely walled off in its own plot, where other apps can't touch its data, can't meddle with account information, can't talk back and forth in an intimate way. Every app is more or less isolated.
