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quadrox writes:
"It used to be possible for Android apps to access any kind of storage on an android device through the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission. Writing to the SD card is useful for many different kinds of apps, e.g. file managers or cloud storage synchronization. However, the latest version of Android will no longer allow apps to write anywhere on external storage media, instead apps will only be allowed to access app-specific folders on SD cards. Android Police has an excellent writeup of the changes and the implications for users."
[ED Note: This is bound to irritate power users that rely on their SD cards for additional device storage.]
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I'm not a robot like you. I don't like having disks crammed into me... unless they're Oreos, and then only in the mouth.
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(Score: 1) by SGT CAPSLOCK on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:53AM
It'll make my phone practically useless for a lot of the things I do.
-- is what I thought until I realized that apps which need access to storage devices can simply request root permissions to negate this. Well, I'm hoping that's how it works anyway!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by quadrox on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:57AM
Yes, many slashdotters will have their phones rooted, but i still think it's a development in the wrong direction. I don't want more lockdown and less choices forced on me all the time. If I wanted an iPhone I would have bought one - those can be jailbroken too. But it's not what I want, so they should stop pretending.
(Score: 1) by SGT CAPSLOCK on Wednesday February 19 2014, @09:04AM
I'm with you on that! Well, I just wish there was a way we could have our cake and eat it too.
I hate every mobile operating system I've come across so far. I mean, I really hate them - as technically minded as I am, I hate them enough that I don't even bother to research them to understand -why- they have the flaws that they have. I just accept that they're not what I want, and I keep hoping something better comes along.
I've heard rumors of x86-based phones -- I wonder if those can run a real version of Linux that I can actually admin properly...
(Score: 1) by tangomargarine on Wednesday February 19 2014, @03:35PM
Because the reason these OSs are the way they are is totally because of technical limitations. Totally.
A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing what he reads.
(Score: 4, Funny) by pjbgravely on Wednesday February 19 2014, @10:55AM
Did you mean Soylent newsers? Or is that Soylenters? Or Soylentites?
(Score: 1) by osiguru on Wednesday February 19 2014, @01:36PM
I hereby declare my platitudes to the Soylentite god of Soy.
Here comes the rice.
(Score: 1) by halcyon1234 on Wednesday February 19 2014, @01:44PM
'round these parts, son-- we're just people.
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(Score: 1) by tangomargarine on Wednesday February 19 2014, @03:40PM
I would suggest "Soylusers" (luser [jargon.net]). Soylenters would also suffice.
"Soylentils" sounds too cutesy to me...and I'm not a fan of either soy, or lentils.
A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing what he reads.
(Score: 1) by soylentsandor on Thursday February 20 2014, @11:38AM
This site is called SoylentNews mate!
You must be new here...
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by SGT CAPSLOCK on Wednesday February 19 2014, @09:00AM
An addendum:
As far as apps requesting root permissions go, I already have a ton of them. XPrivacy/PDroid/etc be damned - I have more applications running as root on my phone than I'd -ever- allow outside a sandbox on my PC.
I started to ask myself why just now, and I realized that it's pretty much due to the reason we're talking about here: Android and its consistent mangling of permissions. The only way for any useful application to do its job is to press that "allow" button when su pops up asking for root access, and just hope that it isn't plotting against me...