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It's the kind of surprise a person has when someone says they're going to hit you if you poke them one more time and then you poke them.

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It's just another in a long, long line of examples of how the Android permissions model is flawed. iOS has plenty of problems as well, but is much better about this. Rather than a laundry list of permissions when you install, it prompts as the app uses each one, and most importantly, gives you the ability to deny them in a granular fashion.

I've heard Google is working on something similar for Android and I really hope it happens sooner rather than later.

Cyanogenmod already provides this via Privacy Guard. I wouldn't be surprised if this made its way to the next version of Android; a lot of Android features were in CM beforehand (it used to be a running joke that Google got its ideas for what to implement next by copying the CM developers).

The CM installation process has gotten way easier (you now don't even need to wipe your phone or lose any data - it installs right on top of the stock ROM), so there's really very little reason not to use it over stock if your device is supported, IMHO.

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