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Sure. I was thinking more along the lines of a mobile OS, where you're given some insight as to what the app is actually asking for. Which I think overall is a good thing...although the granularity or function of the permissions you can request here might not be as easy to understand.

(Not sure why I'm being downvoted above)

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It does give you a similar alert as it would on iOS; the issue with Apple Events is that it generally gives you the same permissions as the process that you're controlling so it's fairly hard to describe it in general. This isn't an issue on iOS because such a permission doesn't really exist.

(I can't explain the downvotes, either. Hacker News is fickle ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Why not list the entitlements, outright? They might not mean anything to most, but the one's that do understand can raise the alarm.

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