I’ve been spending a good deal of the last two days preparing mentally for starting a whole new challenge as a developer. New things aren’t new to me, but this is different and big enough really call for some Deep Thoughts ™. For one thing, I’ve made a big move from the world of Python web development to totally other Python work and while web development has never been the only thing I do, it has been the only work that paid the bills. That transition isn’t one that bothers me or daunts me, though. Instead, I’m thinking about transitioning to the scope of the work I’m getting into. For a long time, I juggled multiple clients and client projects every day, so no single project usually took up most of my time. Every developer juggles time through the day, but exactly how that works in each company and on each project varies a lot. I was looking for a place that I could really focus in a way that I haven’t for a long time. I think I found that, but now I have to deal with the consequen...
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Thus iOS applications have to take in account the possibility that they will not be able to access location data, even if they need it.
If Android did the same, developers would have to handle permission issues as well (either by pre-testing and refusing to run or by cooking up recovery scenarios depending on the allowed APIs)
Developers of access control systems seem to ignore the last fifteen years of capability theory and the UI work that came with it - people have worked hard to make this sort of security usable, we know the answers, we just don't bother to develop toward them.