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Re:I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report by syshum on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @06:22AM (#16965825)
>>This is actually a fairly recent change to Android

if by "recent" you mean "almost since the beginning" then sure.

The app permissions system has gotten better over time, more fine grained, ability to deny permissions while still install the app, and other features, but the basic list of "if you install this app it gets X access" has been there for a long long time, v2 or v3 if I remember correctly

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Re:I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report by saagarjha on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @06:44AM (#16965928)
The ability of accepting/rejecting specific permissions is from Android 6.
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Re:I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report by syshum on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @08:35PM (#16973111)
Yes but my comment was "Displays a list of permissions" not allow you to pick which permissions

I do not believe the first version if iOS has the ability to reject specific permissions either.

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Re:I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report by saagarjha on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @08:42PM (#16973143)
The first version of iOS didn't have apps, so this wasn't an issue…
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