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Comment · 8 years ago
It is fine to want things. These articles are as well founded as those that complain about the way Android does permissions. In that, they inform us about the spectrum of possible preferences among users. But inevitably every user considers only their use case, not how fixing it might break other use cases.
Comment · 8 years ago
Did you mean to respond to some other comment? In this thread, we are talking about cell phone permission systems. We are not talking about a "service," and the system in question is not something one buys or gets for free on its own.
Comment · 8 years ago
I'm confident that you would not consider it so easy if you had ever meaningfully engaged with this problem. The simple fact is no one has cracked the nut yet, and not for lack of trying. Either it it is hard, or everyone who has worked on mobile device capability systems is evil or incompetent. I think the former is more likely.
Comment · 8 years ago
None of the above. It is a hard UI problem to present the plethora of different features that need access control to the user such that they can meaningfully engage with each one.

For example: which of the following permissions does the Facebook app currently get on Android?

    - access Bluetooth settings
    - access nfc settings
    - view network connections
I bet you don't know off the top of your head, and I'm certain that fewer than one in a hundred users do.

This is not because Android team is lazy. All of this information is already surfaced to those who care to look, right there in the play store app. There's a spectrum of options between removing capabilities, presenting them in more detail, and providing a UI that doesn't make people's eyes glaze over. There is a constant tension among these three poles, and no matter where you are, there will be some use case that isn't served well.

Comment · 8 years ago
If I remember correctly, this rammazini institute is also the one place that found a link between cancer and aspartame, when everyone else found no link. Just checked and, yep, it is. It seems from what I've read about their studies that they are just gonna figure out how to say there is a link, even when the evidence is not very good.

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