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Android and iOS have almost equal market share in Norway. Worldwide Android is a lot bigger (~70%). This affects most people, just not in the US.
You can’t grant access on iOS “to view / edit / delete all/any data”, that’s physically not possible, even with the hidden SDKs that only select parties have access to.
This is really no different than what other countries do, e.g. US border officials extensively questioning foreigners or asking for usernames and passwords for social media. As a visitor you have to abide by the law of the country, which may be different from your own country, and whose interpretation may be stretched by border control at the point of entry. The only difference here is that they were able to build an…
Yet, we do not because unlike in Qatar, the UAE and other religious dictatorships, we are a democracy and we have the ability to change our government.
You can do better than whatbouatism.
Is it still not possible to allow an app read/write access to only a single directory on Android? Ony all directories or none? From a quick check on my Android, that seems to be the case. How archaic. Why is it this way?
It seems like this would be good practice these days for any international travel.
> access to read, delete or change all content on the phone The article is pure fiction, as no app has any possibility of ever being granted those permissions on iOS. No such capability even exists for any app on an iPhone.
what is with you people thinking like nothing else other than Apple products exist?
I was addressing the specific claim that “everyone” had to give these permissions.
A fair bit of fear mongering and false news here… almost all of these permissions are not possible on an iPhone / and likely not even possible on modern android!
The permissions mentioned sound like someone that doesn't understand the permissions systems used by Android and iPhone tried to translate them. So this part of the article is almost useless as it is hard to figure out what permissions the app actually has. I don't understand the Android permissions system well enough here, but I would be especially curious about which API version this is targeting as I don't know ho…
> access to read, delete or change all content on the phone The article is pure fiction, as no app has any possibility of ever being granted those permissions on iOS. No such capability even exists for any app on an iPhone.
The permissions mentioned sound like someone that doesn't understand the permissions systems used by Android and iPhone tried to translate them. So this part of the article is almost useless as it is hard to figure out what permissions the app actually has. I don't understand the Android permissions system well enough here, but I would be especially curious about which API version this is targeting as I don't know ho…
What are the dangers if you respect the laws of that country? You are in danger in any country if you entry it with the intent of breaking the laws.