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I think benefit of iOS privacy controls is that you can still install the app, then simply deny it access to data. Android asks you for _all_ permissions up fro
by endemic 13y ago
I think benefit of iOS privacy controls is that you can still install the app, then simply deny it access to data. Android asks you for _all_ permissions up front: allow access or you don't get the app. See: recent flashlight app fiasco.
- corresation 13y agoI absolutely agree with this. It was very shortsighted that apps weren't, from day one, warned that certain permission types are optional. And it's a mistake with every version of the SDK that they don't add the ability for apps to set permissions as such. Instead it continues that apps work on the notion that if they are running, they must have the permission, when just a few null/error checks would save the day.