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An individual window would have completely destroyed the point. Hardly. Apple could have used the OSX installer to scan two or three common locations for app
by inferiorhuman 7y ago
An individual window would have completely destroyed the point.
Hardly. Apple could have used the OSX installer to scan two or three common locations for applications and do a bit of static analysis. Apple could have put the permissions notifications in the notification center with an annoying nag screen every hour or two for the first ~30 days turning into an immediate prompt after that (or after all detected programs have been processed).
- etchalon 7y agoThat sounds like deeply awful UX.
- inferiorhuman 7y agoThat sounds like deeply awful UX. Indeed, almost as bad as popping up countless dialogs per application.
- etchalon 7y agoAh, yes, the tyranny of using the mechanism designed to ask a user to read and confirm something to read and confirm multiple somethings.
- inferiorhuman 7y agoAh, yes, the tyranny of using the mechanism designed to ask a user to read and confirm something to read and confirm multiple somethings. So what's the point then? To inflict more pain?
- 72deluxe 7y agoIf a program calls fopen, how is static analysis going to help? It will just know that the program will open a file of some kind, not the location of said file.