Re:App stores, trust and anti-trust
by drdaeman on Thursday August 20, 2020 @05:21PM
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> Good behavior on an iOS device is not enforced by the app store, but by the OS.
Unfortunately, both.
It shouldn't happen, but in practice (on another OS, but I doubt there's a correlation between cognitive capabilities and preferred mobile device vendor, lol) people were installing those "brightest" flashlight apps mindlessly granting them every single permission they ask for.
The machines can't yet analyze appropriateness of the request. That's where human moderation comes into play.
Unfortunately, both.
It shouldn't happen, but in practice (on another OS, but I doubt there's a correlation between cognitive capabilities and preferred mobile device vendor, lol) people were installing those "brightest" flashlight apps mindlessly granting them every single permission they ask for.
The machines can't yet analyze appropriateness of the request. That's where human moderation comes into play.