To clarify my statement (here and in past threads), I have zero problem with
a developer offering to trade my info for an app instead of money, even (in
the "new method" under discussion) on a sliding scale of access vs
functionality.
The concern is that it is currently a flat "click ok to make the app work",
with forced trust ("BobsCamera promises to use gps only for geotagging, not
for selling advertising or sending out hit squads.")
Fine control is something people want, whether they have verbalized it or
not - that is why there are so many toggle/powerbar widgets out there, and
why there was so much discussion when gps came off the "instant toggle"
list.. Nobody is buying those because they want to turn gps off to annoy
Maps, they buy them to prevent apps from loading their location without
permission (whether due to privacy or battery concerns) or to lower what is
effectively unauthorized (by the user) network data usage, etc..
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Duane Blanchard <[email protected]>wrote:
> I agree that the device belongs to the user, not the dev, the carrier,
> etc., but I think the point of the previous post was that something method
> to declare to the user that the software will be useless without Internet
> connectivity (podcast apps, e-mail clients, etc.) or without access to the
> camera (camera app replacements, video chat clients, etc.), and so on.
>
> Duane
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