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Re:A list of all Android permissions by eeZi on Monday October 03, 2016 @06:31AM (#12626353)
Android is still the (mainstream) mobile operating system which gives you the most freedom. What are you going to use instead? iOS?

This is not a hostile limitation - it's a backwards-incompatible API change that the ecosystem hasn't fully adapted to.

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Re:A list of all Android permissions by dredmorbius on Monday October 03, 2016 @06:44AM (#12626382)
Quite honestly: nothing within the "mobile" ecosystem.

A laptop running Linux. The mobile world isn't ready for non-trivial use. May never be, though I'm watching Ubuntu's progress.

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Re:A list of all Android permissions by eeZi on Monday October 03, 2016 @07:01AM (#12626447)
Agreed then. I'm a developer and I can't see myself developing on a mobile phone operating system anytime soon. But I still like my Android phone for taking notes, pictures, syncing PDFs and reading my mails.

It's just two different use cases and different security/freedom tradeoffs. Not sure if I'd call Android a general purpose operating system.

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