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Originally Posted by kaufman
You are correct, and if you check the google documentation, you will see that they aren't even doing it for security reasons. They are doing it to make post uninstall cleanup easier. Still stupid, IMO, but for a different reason.
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Yes, that too, and that's even worse. I've seen discussion of security concerns, too, which if valid, would have been at least easier to swallow. But they're not either.
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Stupid yes, but why do you think evil? They have made a number of bad changes in the last couple of releases (No software control of airplane mode, remove access to battery statistics, the SD card thing), but I don't see why you would consider any of them evil.
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Merely that particular form of evil that I've long associated with Apple and Microsoft, in making corporate decisions that appear to be needlessly greedy and/or against the best interests of the user community and the state of the art. I also presume this is what Google meant in their "Don't be evil" guideline, since I assume they didn't need to remind themselves to not commit genocide or engage in human trafficking and the like.