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> There's no point, at all, to OAuth on a native client.

As far as I understand it, you're right, except when OAuth is the only authentication mechanism provided and you want to, you know, develop a desktop app.

Of course, providing OAuth as the only authentication mechanism appears then to be the problem. But that is not a problem application writers can solve; it seems to be a problem that OAuth deployers have to deal with.




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