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I think iOS' way is much superior. - It shows up the alert when the app actually tries to use a resource. - It lets me use the app without specific permission
by eknkc 13y ago
I think iOS' way is much superior.
- It shows up the alert when the app actually tries to use a resource.
- It lets me use the app without specific permissions. This is something great. I don't grant location permissions to social apps to avoid sharing my location unintentionally. They work just fine.
- The long list of permissions on Google Play store does not really help when the app just wants to be able to pause something when phone rings and that requires absolute access to phone services. That causes a scary list for legitimate apps almost always.
To be fair, Android's way of having them listed makes it possible to assess an app's intention before installing it. That's great and all for me and you, but did not help 50+ million users in this case.
- krisgenre 13y agohmm.. wasn't the iOS app QuizUp in the spotlight only recently for having security bugs that exposes personal information to random users?
- jdminhbg 13y agoQuizUp had legitimate user info needed to manage the game (you need a person's FB account and/or email to contact and identify them), the problem is they were transmitting it unencrypted. So permissions didn't make a difference there.
- csmatt 13y agoI would love that for Android. I miss the Cyanogenmod ROMs for Gingerbread where you could toggle which requested permissions YOU allowed an app to have. Also, I've been saying it for a long time, but icons colored according to their security risk would be better than just names with descriptions. We have to make security more convenient.