The fact that Android has more 'dangerous' abilities (sending SMS, phone calls, etc) makes it more difficult.
I'm also surprised that there is a permission for using internet access.
A few months back I had to deal with this on my home network: https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11849
My brother had Adblock Plus on his Android tablet and it was continuously sucking down data to do nothing, presumably in a background process.
It makes sense that if you want to give devs lots of power when making apps, you need to give users finer grained permissions. Maybe you can group things or whatever, but you probably shouldn't be making permissions coarser grained or forcing users to install 3rd party apps to get control of their phone again.
This is one of the reasons I use iOS. I don't really have to worry too much about apps doing dodgy things because they are severely hamstrung to begin with.
I'm also surprised that there is a permission for using internet access.
A few months back I had to deal with this on my home network: https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11849 My brother had Adblock Plus on his Android tablet and it was continuously sucking down data to do nothing, presumably in a background process.
It makes sense that if you want to give devs lots of power when making apps, you need to give users finer grained permissions. Maybe you can group things or whatever, but you probably shouldn't be making permissions coarser grained or forcing users to install 3rd party apps to get control of their phone again.
This is one of the reasons I use iOS. I don't really have to worry too much about apps doing dodgy things because they are severely hamstrung to begin with.