[Renate]

I have an app which enumerates all installed packages and lists them by last install/update. It's very handy for me since I have a lot of my own apps and devices to see if everything is up to date. My custom launcher also has to know what is installed. Neither of these requires a single permission to run.

Why does Android allow one app to see all the other apps? It should have been a permission that I could request/grant to these two apps specially. It means that every app that you run can (and probably does) phone back home about everything on your device. Maybe people with "Flappy Birds" installed buy more shotgun shells? Correlation between "Candy Crush" and possible Ozempic user?