[simias]

I agree but unfortunately it's not a very popular design pattern these days.

Because of this I basically have no applications installed on my android smartphone since even trivial applications often end up requiring ridiculous amounts of privileges (often for relatively minor features) and of course there's no way to fine tune what you allow and what you don't.

Honestly I think that's a terrible habit to give your users, just ignore the privilege list since there's nothing you can do about it and click "sure whatever".

Devs should have to justify why the app needs the feature and I should be able to disable it if it's not critical for the application to work correctly. It would make it a bit harder to write and test those apps but it's not like it's rocket science either...