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They are not completely useless. If a user doesn't want an app to send or receive SMS or make calls this can be prevented by permissions. This is true for sever
by biafra 15y ago
They are not completely useless. If a user doesn't want an app to send or receive SMS or make calls this can be prevented by permissions. This is true for several other permissions.
- glhaynes 15y agoThey are useless for a very large class of users - it can be argued that those users should educate themselves more if they want to be safer, but it doesn't seem escapable that hardware vendors (and others, including ISVs and network providers) have some incentive to promote solutions that have [what they consider to be] a better rate of solving the problem satisfactorily.