Good gravy this would be an abysmal report on Android. In my experience many of the free utility apps and games I downloaded required location tracking for no good reason. I’m on iOS for that (and other) reasons.
I discovered this when I was scrolling through the DTEK app on my BlackBerry, which shows every time an app requests sensitive data access, and saw that a bunch of apps that I hadn't opened in a while (like GasBuddy) were accessing my location every 5 minutes.
There's an app called Bouncer [1] that can auto-remove permissions as soon as an app is closed.
[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samruston....
But ye, there should be a "grant location this once" option.
The ones i am aware are all useless (battery saver, space cleaner etc), and at some point one or two was requesting screenshot access (forgot the name) under the false pretense of "accesibility".
- The devices I owned were generally pretty slow, or got slow over time
- iMessage lock-in
- Hundreds of dollars invested in Apple purchases
- The app ecosystem, while giant, always seemed to be junky to me
- a few iOS-only apps
- I never found a decent SMS from desktop solution, although I'm sure they are out there
- Vaguely superior hardware
- Animojis is probably the biggest one
Every so often I am reminded people still use SMS, and by extension, iMessage. I think a combination of being in South East Asia for a long time, and also moving around so much, and both me (and almost everyone I know) uses various messaging apps not tied to a phone number (WhatsApp, Messenger, LINE). I have a British VOIP number where SMS goes through to my email.
I wonder how much longer phone numbers, and, by association, SMS have to live.