“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

“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.