Re: Old news but still not fixed!
Sorry, didn't see this response, don't know if this thread is still alive, but...
At the time - and at any time - there are MANY apps already written. The original bug report suggested that these permissions should be even more granular and should be user selectable both at install time and at any time after.
Google's, rather valid, argument was that the existing apps would break if this were done.
The counter argument was that apps that didn't handle being denied access they are expected and crashed (due to being old or poorly written) could be allowed to cope by having dummy data given to them through these interfaces rather than being explicitly denied access to them and having unhandled "access denied" errors thrown. This would give the best of all worlds - a set of apps that are stable under all user conditions, and improved security for the user.
This counter argument was ignored and the bug report closed for reasons never expressed.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
