[phpisthebest]

>>"well, we won't _use_ all those permissions, so just give them to us anyway, because it's easier this way."

Devs have been doing that since the dawn on computing. Ohh your App needs to be able to write to a protected folder on windows. Dont document what folder just force the app the run as Admin.

Early Android Apps asked for all the permissions, all the time because of lazy devs

security is hard, and gets in the way of what the devs wnat to do so they just find ways to bypass it

[SoftTalker]

Early Android had pretty coarse permissions IIRC. It wasn't quite "root or nothing" but somewhat closer to that than it is today.

[elecush]

"because of lazy devs" :thinking:

[makestuff]

Definitely not because of the pesky product managers and sales teams who want a new feature to sell yesterday to boost their EOY bonus...