Wow. Quality journalistic piece right here only it's lacking the quality part. It would appear that Jon Pareles is attempting to make an issue out of nothing he

Wow. Quality journalistic piece right here only it's lacking the quality part. It would appear that Jon Pareles is attempting to make an issue out of nothing here even complaining that he was unable to get his free copy of the album until an hour after he was supposed too (as he laments in the last paragraph). My favourite part of the article was this line in the second paragraph: "It’s an ugly piece of software." — I actually thought the app was pretty well-made. The animations and use of typography and media were balanced well. Jay-Z isn't an Android developer, he didn't make the app, Samsung did. As the article points out he sold one million copies of the album to Samsung for promotional use at $5 a piece. It was Samsung that built the app and chose what permissions it required. To Jay-Z it was a simple transaction, all he had to do was supply the goods for a price and allow Samsung to do the lifting. Oh and there is a difference between a Government secretly collecting and recording your information without your permission and an app giving you the option of sharing your data. You don't just install the app and it automatically allows and helps itself to the contents of your phone. Jon is going to have a heart-attack when he realises a lot of other apps in the Play Store demand similar permissions as well. Sensationalism at its finest here.