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by otterlicious
2107 days ago
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Provide a rooted phone by default. Going back to carrying boatload of cards again is not an option. Google Pay doesn't (officially) work on rooted phones. There are lots of other things like that, which is why it makes a lot of sense to ship phones not rooted, while still making it easy to do so. |
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As the original request was at least partially pointed in Google's direction, it's probably reasonable to treat it as including a request that google not punish the user in other ways for rooting.
I do believe fundamentally that if you don't have (or can't easily get) root on a device, you don't really own it. On the other hand, giving unlimited permission to third-party apps isn't a great idea in today's model where arbitrary app developers are most certainly not worthy of unlimited trust. I'd like to have a more sophisticated permissions model, to include things like allowing an app access to only specific files and directories rather than full filesystem access (I'm aware Android has a barely-usable form of this), or network access, but only to specific domain names.