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You've reduced the problem to only GPS location which is just wrong. Fact is, Android apps targeting 5.0 or lower can still read anything on my phone - SMS, loc

You've reduced the problem to only GPS location which is just wrong. Fact is, Android apps targeting 5.0 or lower can still read anything on my phone - SMS, location, photos, contacts, and well, everything else. And any root or ROM based add-ons to stop them are an impractical usability nightmare, where I could just own an iPhone.

lqdc13 9y ago
Weren't such permissions made explicit when the app was installed? I'm not worried about SMS because everyone and their mother can see it now. I don't think apps that didn't require contacts during installation could access them. To me all Apple products are a usability nightmare. I am forced to do simple things the way Apple wants me to do them instead of the way I want to do them.
- sjwright 9y ago
  Or you could say: To me all Android products are a usability nightmare. I am forced to do simple things the way Google wants me to do them instead of the way I want to do them. That line of reasoning just doesn't scale. Like only learning to type on a Dvorak keyboard, doing things "your way" can have consequences. Rampant, arbitrary customisation of interfaces is, in my estimation, more often than not an exercise in painting yourself into a corner.
  - lqdc13 9y ago
    Completely agree with you on the interface front. I gave up on interface consistency though because every app now has its own interface and vendors like Samsung have their own for each product. I miss the old days of windows apps with consistent menus and obvious ways to use the programs. Now it's like playing some sort of text RPG where you have to try everything to figure out where some setting is. The problem I have with apple is that things are not there because "art". Google is also very much guilty of it. But at least they don't copy all the apple problems and usually expose more of the internal workings of things than apple does.

lqdc13 9y ago

Weren't such permissions made explicit when the app was installed? I'm not worried about SMS because everyone and their mother can see it now. I don't think apps that didn't require contacts during installation could access them. To me all Apple products are a usability nightmare. I am forced to do simple things the way Apple wants me to do them instead of the way I want to do them.

sjwright 9y ago
Or you could say: To me all Android products are a usability nightmare. I am forced to do simple things the way Google wants me to do them instead of the way I want to do them. That line of reasoning just doesn't scale. Like only learning to type on a Dvorak keyboard, doing things "your way" can have consequences. Rampant, arbitrary customisation of interfaces is, in my estimation, more often than not an exercise in painting yourself into a corner.
- lqdc13 9y ago
  Completely agree with you on the interface front. I gave up on interface consistency though because every app now has its own interface and vendors like Samsung have their own for each product. I miss the old days of windows apps with consistent menus and obvious ways to use the programs. Now it's like playing some sort of text RPG where you have to try everything to figure out where some setting is. The problem I have with apple is that things are not there because "art". Google is also very much guilty of it. But at least they don't copy all the apple problems and usually expose more of the internal workings of things than apple does.