>iOS doesn’t prompt the user for permission when an app tries to access their address book information.
It seems a little ridiculous to me that we don't completely blame Apple for leaving the door wide open for developers to do whatever the hell they wanted with your entire address book. Think about that for a moment. Any application you've ever downloaded on the app store could have archived your contacts.
Apple has already demonstrated they're capable of securing sensitive user details, yet the faint calls from informed users and ethical developers to expand that security to cover the address book has been conveniently ignored (to the benefit of "guilty" developers, questionable iPhone UX, and of course Apple) for years.
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>iOS doesn’t prompt the user for permission when an app tries to access their address book information.
It seems a little ridiculous to me that we don't completely blame Apple for leaving the door wide open for developers to do whatever the hell they wanted with your entire address book. Think about that for a moment. Any application you've ever downloaded on the app store could have archived your contacts.
Apple has already demonstrated they're capable of securing sensitive user details, yet the faint calls from informed users and ethical developers to expand that security to cover the address book has been conveniently ignored (to the benefit of "guilty" developers, questionable iPhone UX, and of course Apple) for years.
Not cool Apple.