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I understand the frustration, but it is a different threat model. Your phone more-or-less knows your exact location at all times (and has to, by design). In my

• ajsnigrutin 3y ago
  And not just location, also who you communicate with (contacts and "phone" permissions), are you currently walking/driving/sitting still, who is around you (wifi and location/bluetooth permissions), it can record audio/video (camera, mic permissions), and it's al based on the user knowing enough to allow or disallow those permissions when needed.
  • freedomben 3y ago
    By restricting full-screen, you're punishing the top 85+% of users who are fully capable of understanding what a permission ask for "Is allowed to display full screen while locked" is asking. Generally spekaing, the race to design everything for the bottom 10% of users is resulting is a world of forced conformity, severe artificial limitations, and basically the Simpsons episode where Homer bubble wraps the entire playground, but in a tech sense.
• iamcalledrob 3y ago
  Right. But there has to be a better model than delegating innovation to Apple and Google. It's a huge conflict of interest too, since they are both Ad companies. We're heading down a path where there are products that only Apple and Google can build, and it's a huge problem for the ecosystem.
  • kaba0 3y ago
    Putting Apple in the same basket as Google in terms of ads is just misleading.