Very unnecessary overreach on android permissions..
Will be interesting to see how many of the fans of uber here on hn will try to spin this.
Just forwarded to some friends, they are uninstalling the rogue app as I type this!
Just forwarded to some friends, they are uninstalling the rogue app as I type this!
First : sadly most users (and I really mean most) don't even glance at the permission screen.
It makes it hard for us Android devs to push back against the product teams when they want to add a crazy feature needing a ton of permissions (I still do though and the fact that it breaks auto updates at least is a good argument... ).
The weird part of the permission system is that we have to transition from a 'designed by & for engineers system where there were a tons of different permissions that no users ever read to a granular system where you only need to ask user's permission in order to access private data.
IMO the platform is definitely moving in the right direction (if only because it apes the other platforms approach).