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Comment by johnklos | Hacker News Reader

According to the app store:

    This app may use your location even when it isn't open, which can decrease device battery life.

Why would an emulator running Linux need someone's location?

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Using location and/or background audio are ways of keeping an app running in the background and not being killed by iOS.

Obviously this is a bad thing for any app to abuse but in this context it’s up the user to write in ‘cat /dev/location > /dev/null &’ into the shell or a shell script.

It supports /dev/location. It doesn't request location consent until you try to open that file

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