India’s Flipkart to shut down website, thanks to popularity of mobile

Re:India’s Flipkart to shut down website, thanks to populari... by TazeTSchnitzel on Sunday April 26, 2015 @08:44PM (#9443880)

Oh, don't worry, it gets worse:

* Android does not let you selectively grant permissions (unlike iOS)

* Android expects you to give an app all permissions at once at install time, carte blanche (unlike iOS)

* Doing certain very basic things often requires a broad permission - for example, checking if music is playing so the app can mute itself? "Read phone state" - which includes the phone number you're calling

* Google are actively making this worse by making Android permissions broader on Google Play - rather than accept something very specific, you now accept an entire category!

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Re:India’s Flipkart to shut down website, thanks to populari... by SyneRyder on Sunday April 26, 2015 @11:58PM (#9444322)

Potentially even worse, Google had an excellent per application permissions system they were working on in Android 4.2 & 4.3 called App Ops that worked similarly to iOS, but that project appears to have now been cancelled: http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/26/android-app-ops/

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Re:India’s Flipkart to shut down website, thanks to populari... by avinassh on Monday April 27, 2015 @01:06AM (#9444464)

Do these problems exists on rooted devices also? Is there any work around or some tweak?

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Re:India’s Flipkart to shut down website, thanks to populari... by thaumasiotes on Monday April 27, 2015 @03:13AM (#9444776)

Cyanogenmod still includes the app ops.

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Re:India’s Flipkart to shut down website, thanks to populari... by hellbanner on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @02:45PM (#9454370)

I'm really interested in expanding my mobile development into more Android but stuff like this sounds awful. I hate the idea of offering say, GPS or datastorage to a customer but not letting them opt-in to it.

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Re:India’s Flipkart to shut down website, thanks to populari... by hellbanner on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @02:44PM (#9454362)

Thanks for creeping me out, Google. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9430839

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