If you’re setting an app to be your default browser or email client, you probably trust it with your data. However, you still have to manually grant it permission for everything. Starting with Android Q, apps set as defaults will be automatically granted permissions based on what they are the default for.
Android Q introduces a new function called ‘Roles’, which “allows the OS to grant apps elevated access to system functions based on well-understood use cases”.
I’m not entirely sure this is a great idea. I can easily see scammers trying to trick people into setting a malware app as default, granting it easier access to their device.
Definitely a bad thing. Google apparently views permission dialogs as detrimental to the UX experience compared to iOS.
The thing is that Apple can get away with no permission dialogs because they somehow manage to keep their app store clean. The Play Store on the other hand? You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy (at least when it comes to OS-vendor-backed stores).
Very profitable (which brings money also for Apple…) iOS malware was reported here… https://www.osnews.com/story/29863/how-to-make-80000-per-month-on-the-apple-app-store/
I wouldn’t call it malware, just uselessware to fool the most gullible 0.1% out there. I mean, even McAfee once sold a largely useless product intended to “protect” your photos in social media from being copied using custom DRM (Social Protection). Useless? Yes. Malware? No.
Anyway, the App Store isn’t perfect. But the Play Store is worse. I don’t know why.
It probably sells off online activities and contacts of its users, something they certainly didn’t intend, that’s malware enough; at the very least its subgroup scamware. And it’s actually 4 times morethan 0.1%, “To get 200 subscribers from 50,000 downloads, they just need to convert 0.4% to purchases”; and it’s apparently one of many such top listed scams about which Apple doesn’t seem to want to do anything.