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One of the biggest requirements iOS was designed around was "don't trust lazy or shitty devs" and people still freak out about the huge amount of restrictions p
by poolpool 13y ago
One of the biggest requirements iOS was designed around was "don't trust lazy or shitty devs" and people still freak out about the huge amount of restrictions placed on apps. I'm not sure there is any winning.
- Houshalter 13y agoI think a decent solution is to allow users to give apps permission to do things like that, but not have them by default and make the app work even if it wants those things. For example I had some browser extension that wanted to have access to my entire history, even though it didn't need it at all. If you said no it wouldn't work at all. As opposed to giving it some default value for history like "the only site I've ever been to is google.com." You should be able to have control over small things too. Like "allow this app internet access" or "allow internet access only when in use" and stuff like that.
- xfalcox 13y agolike you can do now on some aosp roms on android. Installing Facebook and taking away all those permissions is awesome!
- nuclear_eclipse 13y agoMy preferred solution is to give both the developer AND the user enough rope to hang both themselves and each other. IOW, give the developer lots of options, but give the user just as many options to override the choices of the developer. But then again, I use Linux and Android, so I just might be biased.