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0 pointstomp9y ago0 comments

You're putting words in OP's mouth. S/he only said that iOS makes it harder for apps to access user's data without direct permission. Which is undoubtedly true; Android app permissions are very crude and usually granted when you install app, whereas iOS asks the user the first time the app actually tries to access data (e.g. camera, contacts, GPS).

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cbraz9y ago· 2 in thread

The permission model in Android changed in Android 6. Apps using the sdk that was released with Android 6 will have to ask users for permissions as well. I expect that eventually older SDK's will stop working on modern Android.

aroch9y ago

Less than ~25% of active Android devices are on Marshmallow or Nougat, which somewhat tempers the impact of this change.

iOS does offer a slightly nicer three tiered request strategy over Google's yes|no. iOS let's you grant location access only when the app is active

izacus9y ago

Actual EU/US realworld stats are >50%, not 25. Don't mislead.

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r3bl9y ago· 2 in thread

Google already changed that in Android 6. You can install an app and only allow it certain permissions.

Of course, thanks to the Android ecosystem, it will take another year or two until a significant portion of people actually switches to devices running Android 6.

izacus9y ago

Actual usage stats from several widely deployed apps to US/EU show that Android 6 and newer is already over 50% of active devices.

Slower than iOS yes, but not as alarming anymore.

newscracker9y ago

Please provide a citation for your stats if you're going to repeat it. As mentioned in my comment above, the Android official dashboard has Android 6 and newer at less than 27% as per the latest measurement yesterday. [1] I can't imagine how this couldn't be alarming.

[1]: https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html

izacus9y ago

That's not true. I WAS true a few years back which is what is probably misleading you.

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