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>Google must be sweating bullets right now I doubt that very much. You also seem to ignore the lack of runtime permissions in desktop OS's such as Windows and

>Google must be sweating bullets right now I doubt that very much. You also seem to ignore the lack of runtime permissions in desktop OS's such as Windows and Mac OS that could easily do the same thing. >Every single Android app seems to require access to every single thing This is a lie. The majority of apps ask for only the runtime permissions they need to work. Regardless, you're still in control of the permissions you grant and if you believe an app is asking for permissions which it shouldn't have then you shouldn't grant it.

GrinningFool 9y ago
Older, incompatible apps still default to asking for permissions at install time. There are two problems with this - first, I suspect most folks won't know that you can go back and turn those off. That's a relatively new feature, and not really something people will explore on their own. . Second - if it's an app you already installed that has required new permissions, that app can run (via BroadcastReceiver) when it is updated and before you have a chance to alter the fine-grained permissions. Separately, the interface for managing fine-grained permissions in Android is weird. You get most of them in one place, but then it seems you have to check a couple of other places for 'special' permissions? edit: never mind this - it seems like the old version is the one that will get notified, and the permission change only applied ot the new one.