> This has been discussed here before, and the advice given was to always > ask for everything that you might ever need, or suffer major negative > consequences when you do need it. People on the list have reported this, > and I've seen it happen to a half dozen apps myself. You can't claim it > won't happen, because it DOES. I've seen it many times!
There are even some Google apps I haven't updated because of permissions I don't see any point in allowing and can't revoke. Just have to find time to root my device and try to remember what part of Google maps breaks on rooted devices and that's no answer because not everyone can do it. OTOH whilst they may be more likely to get annoyed and cause bad press people are more likely to accept those permissions if they like your app enough. One permission that often annoys me is start on boot which being controllable is a must for any decent OS. I've had a facebook app on my sisters phone that couldn't be closed by the app manager and was still operational i.e. not hard locked or zombied and had to reboot the phone. A severe cyclical problem here is possible. -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
