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They overhauled permissions so that the app will ask you for permission right when the app needs it, rather than 50 permissions all up front. So you try to uplo
by et1337 8y ago
They overhauled permissions so that the app will ask you for permission right when the app needs it, rather than 50 permissions all up front. So you try to upload a photo and Android says "allow access to photos?"
It was a huge and much-needed upgrade.
- nitrogen 8y agoUnfortunately some critical permissions are lumped into "Other" and can't be disabled, including full network access (portscan and privacy risk) and running at phone startup (I uninstalled Pandora when I started getting "Pandora has stopped" alerts when Spotify was the only app open).
- cryptonector 8y agoUntil this story gets as good as iOS', you can count me out of the Android universe.