Thread: Apps - how do they make their money?

Spazz you...well spazz, , the thread is about why companies that supply apps that provide games etc require access to things such as your microphone, camera and all your files, and that you have to accept that before you use them (i.e grant that permission). I know you're away with the fairies, but maybe you might try your very hardest to see the relevance behind perhaps understanding what is going on.

Originally Posted by hazz

hence your need to link 9 hour unabridged readings of books.

It's rather a famous book hazz (1984 ) - maybe they haven't translated it into your mother tongue yet?

Originally Posted by Neverna

However, in my experience, the vast majority just say they want access and don't say why,

the vast majority of apps are cobbled together with code that was re-used and the cobblers have no real idea of its calls

Originally Posted by Dapper

Also easy to see

no it is not unless you are looking at all the socket requests with an outside device

the hubub last week shows how much code is borrowed

Don't be silly baldric. its all a carefully planned out conspiracy between big government and big faceless cooperates.

I could not possibly be because most of the programmers that write apps are millennial's with their hubris, and little to no commercial awareness, sense of privacy or frankly common sense. Morons that get malware because they used pirate versions of free software. managed by people who do not understand the risks they are teething these chaps get up to.

Generally apps are not written with a limited set of permissions available to the developers. they see this as self inflicted bug generators. at the end of the project they, If allowed, just ask for everything as this gets the job done quick. if you bully them they remove permissions until something breaks, put it back in and say job done.... hence the excessive permission requests.

And as baldric pointed out... even the developers don't understand what their app does. As demonstrated by this tale of developer pain at the hands of apple

However this is not the point.... dapper's very good at mrs the point, it want happens when you cannot tell, rather like trump, the difference between fact and fiction...

The issue in the bigger picture is analytics and the collection of meta data. Its driven by the huge differences in pay outs for click throughs, from nothing to in excess of 100 pounds each. small improvements in the payout and click-through rates make massive differences to revenues.
Hence the incentive to collect and analyst everything.... It is the issue this creates that's the point. A taster being
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Fundamentally It comes down to who owns our meta data. Is it curly the property of the people who collected it.... or do we have some ownership interest... should they need permission to collect, use and sell it, how explicit should they have to be when asking for that permission.