Comment on Weather app asking for permission to manage calls

capital@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Gestrid@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sort of. I don’t remember the specifics, but it used to be that some apps completely unrelated to phone calls had to request access to make phone calls because of some stuff they needed that Google only allowed them access to if they had the phone call permission.

  I believe Google has since changed it so most of that stuff is now a separate permission not related to phone calls, so you don’t see it as often now. It can still happen with older apps, though.

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• LucidNightmare@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How quickly the fan boys come to downvote you for being correct. 🤣

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  • AVincentInSpace@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Android bad” --iOS users upon seeing a satirical meme

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    • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You guys are too funny. 🤣

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      • AVincentInSpace@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        truly I must bow to your superior intellect. iphones have so many more features, like not being able to sideload apps, use a terminal or actual filesystem, or install browsers that aren’t reskins of safari, or use apps that would totally work on my device because Steve jobs thought they looked wrong. oh, and strawman arguments about what android was like 10 years ago.

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  • capital@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The vast majority of the Android/iOS flamewar is pro Android on fedi (mostly Mastodon for me). I usually don’t bother but I thought my comment was at least sort of funny? oh well.

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    • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It was funny! These people act like THEIR way is the ONLY way. Not all of us want our phones to be mobile computers with full feature sets. I just want a simple device that has a very nice ecosystem where everything connects and works together 98% of the time. Apple sucks too, who would’ve thought.

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