[im3w1l]

Mobile apps are a hellscape. It's an example of how wrong things can go. Apps treat their privilege model as a license to abuse all their privileges as much as possible.

Ability to read Contact list? Location access? Great let's upload it all to the Googbook analytics for data mining our customers.

[schmichael]

But what's the alternative? No MAC and every app has all user privileges by default like most Linux distros?

I would argue the concept has not failed, just the implementations have fallen short. And for good reason! It's an extremely complex confluence of cutting edge technology, UX, security, privacy, etc. It's been improving, and surely the open source community can do it even better (or at least with a greater focus on privacy).

[nikau]

It would be nice to have a prompt when the phone asks for phone book access:

Allow Deny Fake

The Fake would just have generated names and numbers to pollute their data mining.