They are both slowly catching up to Java ME[1] where all of this worked perfectly well, except for the silly decision to disable the "always allow" option for n

They are both slowly catching up to Java ME[1] where all of this worked perfectly well, except for the silly decision to disable the "always allow" option for non-trusted apps. If they had just let the users (rather than Verisign) decide for themselves which apps they trusted, so that every app wouldn't have to pop up i confirmation dialog every time it wanted a network connection, I would be much happier with what we had then than with Android's model. [1] https://www.wosign.com/support/resources/MIDP_2_0_Tutorial_On_Signed_MIDlets_v1_1_en.pdf https://www.wosign.com/support/resources/MIDP_2_0_Tutorial_O...