Apple now requires user permission in iOS 6 before apps can access private data
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Re: Apple now requires user permission in iOS 6 before apps can access private data
#2As an iPhone dev, I've wondered why they didn't do this since way back when they added GPS in 3.0 with its permission popup.
Re: Apple now requires user permission in iOS 6 before apps can access private data
#3> In iOS 6, the system now protects Calendars, Reminders, Contacts, and Photos as part of Apple’s data isolation privacy initiative.
This shouldn't be an "initiative." This should have been a standard practice from day one.
Re: Apple now requires user permission in iOS 6 before apps can access private data
#4> In iOS 6, the system now protects Calendars, Reminders, Contacts, and Photos as part of Apple’s data isolation privacy initiative. This shouldn't be an "initiative." This should have been a standard practice from day one.
I think the idea was that you wouldn't install apps on your phone that you didn't trust. Obviously that didn't turn out to be practical so now they're adding more fine-grained control.
Re: Apple now requires user permission in iOS 6 before apps can access private data
#5As an iPhone dev, I've wondered why they didn't do this since way back when they added GPS in 3.0 with its permission popup.
I think the reason for that is that people generally take an optimistic view of the world, e.g. "good things will usually happen." When smart phones came out your data was easily available. How many people at that time do you think shrugged it off with the excuse: "well, yeah, but I'm not doing anything wrong/who would care what I'm doing?"
Now that people finally understand that this practice is very widespread and considered "normal" among a non-trivial amount of people in the technology space people naturally have become more protective of their information.
Re: Apple now requires user permission in iOS 6 before apps can access private data
#6As an iPhone dev, I've wondered why they didn't do this since way back when they added GPS in 3.0 with its permission popup.
Address Book has always been a C API, not an Objective-C API, for legacy reasons. I suspect that had a lot to do with it.
Re: Apple now requires user permission in iOS 6 before apps can access private data
#7Let's hope this goads Google to do the same thing in Android.
Re: Apple now requires user permission in iOS 6 before apps can access private data
#8> In iOS 6, the system now protects Calendars, Reminders, Contacts, and Photos as part of Apple’s data isolation privacy initiative. This shouldn't be an "initiative." This should have been a standard practice from day one.
I think the idea was that you wouldn't install apps on your phone that you didn't trust. Obviously that didn't turn out to be practical so now they're adding more fine-grained control.
> the idea was that you wouldn't install apps on your phone that you didn't trust
We've known this doesn't work out on PCs for years; why would phones be any different?
Re: Apple now requires user permission in iOS 6 before apps can access private data
#9Let's hope this goads Google to do the same thing in Android.
They already do this to an extent with permissions. It's not as in-your-face about it, but it's certainly far more fine grained (read vs. write access, more services have permissions, etc.)
Re: Apple now requires user permission in iOS 6 before apps can access private data
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the idea was that you wouldn't install apps on your phone that you didn't trust. Obviously that didn't turn out to be practical so now they're adding more fine-grained control.
> the idea was that you wouldn't install apps on your phone that you didn't trust We've known this doesn't work out on PCs for years; why would phones be any different?
It is easier to implement forgiveness than permission.