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I found MIUI's solution to this quite well designed, even if it's a little infuriating when altering permissions for a list of apps. There's a big red warning w

I found MIUI's solution to this quite well designed, even if it's a little infuriating when altering permissions for a list of apps. There's a big red warning with a user friendly description of the danger and a countdown to prevent quick click through, locked behind an "I accept the risk" checkbox. You need to read at least one UI element that says "danger" before you can complete the interaction. If such popups were introduced in iOS, they should be universal, of course, and the same danger prompts should show for Apple's software as for their competitors. Apple won't do that (outside of the EU) but it'd be a solution to the data hunger without compromising market accessibility too much. A good alternative would be for Apple to remove APIs entirely, including for themselves. If they consider some data and some interactivity to be too dangerous for users, perhaps they shouldn't be messing with it either. Apple makes a habit out of exaggerating the dangers of complying with any regulation. Just a bit of fear mongering gets their fans in a state where they'll maintain Apple's walled garden even when they stand to benefit from it being opened up.

Analemma_ 2y ago
“Effective but infuriating” UI treatments aren’t good enough for consumer electronics. Do you remember the UAC popups in Windows Vista, and how that got turned into a punchline on late-night standup and even in Apple’s own TV ads? Apple even did a little bit of this with the new filesystem permissions upon upgrading to (I think) Sierra, and got pilloried for it, even by experienced technology users. The thing you’re talking about would be many times more invasive. > A good alternative would be for Apple to remove APIs entirely, including for themselves. If they consider some data and some interactivity to be too dangerous for users, perhaps they shouldn't be messing with it either. I don’t want this and it doesn’t make any sense. I trust Apple as a vendor in a way I don’t trust third-party developers (or else I wouldn’t have purchased an iPhone), and it’s entirely reasonable to grant them permissions I don’t grant anybody else. Removing those entirely makes my phone considerably less useful.

Analemma_ 2y ago

“Effective but infuriating” UI treatments aren’t good enough for consumer electronics. Do you remember the UAC popups in Windows Vista, and how that got turned into a punchline on late-night standup and even in Apple’s own TV ads? Apple even did a little bit of this with the new filesystem permissions upon upgrading to (I think) Sierra, and got pilloried for it, even by experienced technology users. The thing you’re talking about would be many times more invasive. > A good alternative would be for Apple to remove APIs entirely, including for themselves. If they consider some data and some interactivity to be too dangerous for users, perhaps they shouldn't be messing with it either. I don’t want this and it doesn’t make any sense. I trust Apple as a vendor in a way I don’t trust third-party developers (or else I wouldn’t have purchased an iPhone), and it’s entirely reasonable to grant them permissions I don’t grant anybody else. Removing those entirely makes my phone considerably less useful.