[iscrewyou]

This. This is why I am moving to iOS.

I installed Pocket. It wanted permission Contacts and Calendar. Contacts, I understand for sharing purposes. Calendar? Yeah, fuck off.

Maybe they are bundled together like "read phone status and identity" and Pocket has no way around it. Maybe it is not. As a user, I should not have to worry about that.

Contact and Calendar in no way should be bundled together.

[frik]

VLC isn't available on iOS anymore. At least not in Apple AppStore in Europe :/

Rumors say Apple removed/hide VLC. Though Apple hasn't removed all the shady gray-zone VLC closed source forks that float around in AppStore with questionable Ads and micropayments. The original VLC is still there for Jailbreak users: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html

[icebraining]

Maybe they are bundled together like "read phone status and identity" and Pocket has no way around it.

They aren't.

[Oletros]

They are

[icebraining]

No, they aren't. READ_CALENDAR is a separate permission from READ_CONTACTS.

[TheQwerty]

You're correct that they are indeed separate permissions but I think when Google started putting them in buckets for displaying to the user they lumped the two together.

For instance on one address book app the website currently shows them asking for: Contacts/Calendar -read your contacts -modify your contacts

While the app on my phone says: Contacts -read your contacts -modify your contacts

According to Android Police an update earlier this month to the Play Store app appears to have separated them again: http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/12/06/apk-teardown-play-st...

[hellbanner]

There's still no way to pick and choose on Android is there?

[sleepychu]

Not vanilla, CM's privacy guard does a fairly decent job.