« Samsung and Jay-Z give the Internet a master’s class in how not to make an app »
We install the most needlessly invasive Android app ever.
▻http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/07/samsung-and-jay-z-give-the-internet-a-masters-class-in-how-not-to-make-
As you may have heard by now, Samsung and Jay-Z have teamed up to offer users of Galaxy S III, S 4, and Note II phones the opportunity to hear his new album, Magna Carta Holy Grail, three whole days before anyone else.
Samsung has its own music store that it could, in theory, use to drop this musical treasure trove into the hands of the Galaxy-toting masses, but the company instead chose to distribute the music through a Google Play app. That’s strange enough on its own, but actually installing and using the software is a free master’s class in how not to make an app.
Downloading most applications from Google Play prompts a permissions window that you have to click through before the application will install. The best apps don’t ask for anything they don’t need, and most restrict their requests to things that make sense. Yes, a Web browser will need Internet access. Yes, a photo-editing app will need access to your device’s storage. Yes, a map app will need access to your GPS.
Jay-Z and Samsung’s app, on the other hand, is positively PRISM-like in its requests for your information. All told, it asks:
- To modify and delete contents stored on your phone
- To prevent the phone from sleeping and view a list of all running apps
- For your location, via the GPS
- For full network access
- To see who you’re talking to on the phone
- To run at startup
- To test access to protected storage
- To control the phone’s vibration
- To view accounts set up on the phone
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