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dlw · 01-29-2012, 05:45 PM

Well, hillaryfrompa, I'm not sure your basic question got answered.

You might as well call those black things with the tiny white / yellow / orange writing menus -- I do. The "permissions" menu is Google's effort to enforce their policy, "We're not evil -- you shouldn't be either." The colored warnings let you know what the application you're about to install wants to do with your hardware and system software. The clearest explanation I've found is here. Google's attempt to explain permissions is here.

Hope this helps.

01-29-2012, 05:45 PM	#22
dlw Member Posts: 20 Karma: 15 Join Date: Jun 2009 Device: Palm TX, Pocket eDGe, Nexus (2012), and now an iPad Air (3)	Well, hillaryfrompa, I'm not sure your basic question got answered. You might as well call those black things with the tiny white / yellow / orange writing menus -- I do. The "permissions" menu is Google's effort to enforce their policy, "We're not evil -- you shouldn't be either." The colored warnings let you know what the application you're about to install wants to do with your hardware and system software. The clearest explanation I've found is here. Google's attempt to explain permissions is here. Hope this helps.