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Comment by pydry | Hacker News Reader

They could just make the contacts API use an inbuilt contact picker than just supplies to the app the contact the user selects each time they make a call.

I assume they want google apps to have access to the whole phonebook without looking too suss though.

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> I assume they want google apps to have access to the whole phonebook without looking too suss though. This is why I hope Google and Apple both get forced to give up control of either the OS or the app marketplaces. No company should own both the platform and have a privileged place on that platform like they do today. MS didn't even have this level of control on Windows and they still got an antitrust lawsuit...

This is a horrible user experience, ends up like iOS where there are great apple apps, and everything else is second class. The great thing of android is that you can choose a different dialer or different sms app, and it can be as good as the preinstalled one

Being able to install an anime themed dialer that will exfiltrate your address book isnt making android better.

Neither are the slew of apps that simply fucking break if they dont get access to every last one of your contacts.

Granular permissions intelligently designed do not make for a worse experience they make for a better one.

This doesn’t work when you get an incoming call, and it’s annoying for outgoing ones too.

It absolutely could. You could have a permission to do a lookup on the contacts list. These lookups could then be logged and tracked.

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