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Re:Goodbye Mac App Store by geofft on Friday March 10, 2017 @09:04PM (#13843739)
iOS's permission dialogs are great, but they're not very granular; it's just stuff like "Foo wants to use your camera", "Foo wants access to your calendar", etc. It doesn't ask you about individual files, and the questions are very clear.

But this sort of thing is universally considered a bad idea: https://i.imgur.com/H0uVqFe.jpg

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Re:Goodbye Mac App Store by gurkendoktor on Saturday March 11, 2017 @12:11PM (#13846149)
The image you've linked to doesn't really imply that iOS' dialogs are a bad idea because, as you said, Apple's dialogs ask very clear questions. They don't intimidate the user with tech voodoo.

http://nshipster.s3.amazonaws.com/core-location-always-autho...

Anecdotally, my tech-adverse friends choose Don't Allow when in doubt.

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