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Yes, BBC Weather. That's it. They are part of this mega anti-privacy NSA conspiracy too!

You say this as if it is silly to ask why such an app needs write-access to the USB storage.

Why do you think it is not a legitimate question?

I assume it's for caching data/images. Way back when, many Android devices were handicapped by their tiny internal storage

I question the snarkiness of his comment.

I want to understand why he thinks it is silly to question the requirement to agree to the permission.