On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Giorgio Torres
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > But how does Android Market or even the ADB (when we deploy an app to it
> > through Eclipse), do that?
> Android Market is a privileged app. adb works outside of the device.
>

I wouldn't say it is a privileged app; it is just that it is included on the
system image so can get permission to do some additional things that third
party apps can't.  Likewise the user adb runs under is defined by the system
image so can have the same permission.

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