Apple to Require Explicit Permission for iOS Apps Accessing Address Book Data

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They could have done that before...

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Thats Android. :rolleyes:

This is a good response from Apple, and yet another instance where Tim Cook is managing a potential PR issue a lot differently (and more effectively, IMO) than Steve Jobs. It's obvious from moves like this, to the non-announcement announcement at the Goldman Sachs call yesterday, that Tim Cook believes in a slightly more transparent Apple. It makes sense, and is good business.

Are you implying that iOS is lacking common sense? ;)

I might prefer iOS to Android, but I don't have any qualms with that implication. It's something that should have been done previously.

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That's when I use the 3rd button (the round one below the display) to quit the app, then kill the app, then delete the app...

...after leaving a 1-star rating and review. Which is what we should all be doing to the Path app (et.al.)

1) I am an iPhone user.
2) I am an Android developer.

I've always liked the permissions for building application.The API just throws an exception (with proper information in the logs) if your app does not have the proper permission. This is really the developer's responsibility. There's even a permission to use the internet, so if it is not there, the app should not be able to contact the outside world.

Unfortunately, most users (AKA dumbasses) might see the permissions when they install the app and be clueless about them and click install anyways.

Though, I would like a reminder on first use, like, "This application is about to read your <DO SOMETHING> and profit massively from it. Although you clicked accept without reading the screen when installing, I'm reminding you just now. Now is the time to truly bailout. If you click YES now, then don't come crying, OK?".

And I think it should be a ongoing dialog between developers and project management on whether a permission needs to be added. But that's beyond the point. For example, if a feature requires the android.permission.HUMAN_SACRIFICE, then the developer should bring it up to make sure this is absolutely needed. After all, an app that asks for too many permissions would personally turn me off.

Problem solved. :cool:

They can have my address books... I'm staying on 5.0.1 with my Jailbreak.

EDIT: I have nothing to hide, so I don't care if they get my addresses. I assume Apple has access to all my data anyways, and AT&T to anything I send OTA.

I hope all your contacts feel the same way.