The constant and intentional dumbing down of the permissions model (taking away App Ops before this) is a very unfortunate and mass marke...
The constant and intentional dumbing down of the permissions model (taking away App Ops before this) is a very unfortunate and mass market oriented move from Google. I got rid of a lot of apps when App Ops was gone and I couldn't tweak whether a stupid game could see my contacts and texts. I've basically just stopped downloading apps as a result as well. I suspect the majority of users are none the wiser to permission creep, and frankly probably don't mind that much. I believe that this really has nothing to do with UX and everything to do with getting as much information as possible about individuals from their phone. So much for 'Don't be Evil'. Looks like it's time for me to switch to CM roms or back to Apple. I hate that I bought the Nexus 4 specifically so I wouldn't have to deal with built in carrier garbage in the OS. Now it's Google forcing us to give up privacy. Shit like this is why I want to believe Firefox OS has a chance and am hopeful for it's future. I want an open source phone OS that's actually community driven. Not overseen by some director of UX or VP of marketing partnerships who forces unnecessary change down our throats. At least give people who want it the opportunity to tweak permissions by app! Put a big disclaimer! I'll be okay if not giving candy crush access to my phone call history breaks it! I promise I'm not an idiot!
Posted by retroafroman on Jun 13, 2014, 4:53 PM
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You obviously did this for fun, I don’t want to throw any shade on it and have no criticism, I also make fun things just because.¹ So ta...
Many devs love to shit on the guy from the 'I just want the exe.
Now imagine how poor people stress if their smartphone bricks or gets damaged or lost.
Resuming an extended-thinking session fails permanently with 400 "thinking blocks cannot be modified" (transcript stores thinking text as empty but keeps signat
I'll preface this with a statement that as a European I want European alternatives to succeed, and MS-owned GitHub to shrivel and disappear.
Yeah, but there’s a world of difference between “not perfect” and “we rounded a few sliders, and now the modal is a nightmare to use”.
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The constant and intentional dumbing down of the permissions model (taking away App Ops before this) is a very unfortunate and mass marke...
The constant and intentional dumbing down of the permissions model (taking away App Ops before this) is a very unfortunate and mass market oriented move from Google. I got rid of a lot of apps when App Ops was gone and I couldn't tweak whether a stupid game could see my contacts and texts. I've basically just stopped downloading apps as a result as well. I suspect the majority of users are none the wiser to permission creep, and frankly probably don't mind that much. I believe that this really has nothing to do with UX and everything to do with getting as much information as possible about individuals from their phone. So much for 'Don't be Evil'. Looks like it's time for me to switch to CM roms or back to Apple. I hate that I bought the Nexus 4 specifically so I wouldn't have to deal with built in carrier garbage in the OS. Now it's Google forcing us to give up privacy. Shit like this is why I want to believe Firefox OS has a chance and am hopeful for it's future. I want an open source phone OS that's actually community driven. Not overseen by some director of UX or VP of marketing partnerships who forces unnecessary change down our throats. At least give people who want it the opportunity to tweak permissions by app! Put a big disclaimer! I'll be okay if not giving candy crush access to my phone call history breaks it! I promise I'm not an idiot!
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