I like the concept behind google's permissions setup, but I think the implementation has been poor. Hit the Chrome extensions area and there are tons of comments about "why does it need access to scaryblahthing?!?" when the extension author hasn't really done anything intrusive. The permission categories are just so broad.
I do like the idea of being able customize which permissions an app gets. But even though the cyanogen user base is relatively small and more advanced than android users at large, I bet there are going to be ton of annoying app support requests about why the app doesn't work (like people will read the caveat before enabling). "Well, because you disabled access to blah, that's why." I feel for app developers.
Last edited by Marseille; 05-29-2011 at 05:13 PM.
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