i wish i could refuse to give android apps certain permissions yet still install them. i don't want angry birds to ever be able to charge me money and certainly not read all my SMS messages. i simply won't upgrade. for other apps, i just have to not install them; it doesn't seem like i can give feedback to app developers about this.
Unfortunately this change would require changes to the platform that would break all current applications. I find it funny, Android informs you as to what applications can access and people are more leary, even when the developer is up front about it. On other platforms, the user never has a chance to even be skeptical at all.
Exactly! People install software onto other systems every single day onto systems that do not have capability-based security (including iOS, for the record, which gives application a lot of implicit access to data like your address book), and they never think twice about trusting it, but as soon as you mention what is available to the app, even with an explicit and well reasoned statement about why you are getting access to something you aren't using, people (like this poster) get /angry/, not just confused but /angry/, and start taking positions like "I will not install your software at all"... it's pure madness.