On Wed, 3 Jul 2013, Matthew Cengia wrote:
On 2013-07-03 12:01, Brian May wrote: [...]
I can't think why Facebook would really need all of these. DRAW OVER OTHER APPS looks a little bit scary.
I've seen the Facebook Android App recently started popping up "bubbles" containing a Friend's photo when that Friend tries to chat with you etc., and that overlays other apps and the home screen. I assume that's the rationale behind that one, but there's nothing to say that's the only purpose
Gah! I have a crappy Sony Ericsson pone (heh tyop) with very very tiny internal storage (and Android is so crap that most apps need at least some storage on internal), so I pretty early on removed their 15MB app. The app seems to give absolutely no desirable features over just m.farceb0rk.com in a browser (the changelog keeps talking about how their app is so much faster and more reliable than viewing it in a browser, but that was not my experience). I knew someone at University who is now one of their senior app guys, and I can say he has heavily drunk the koolaid. Remember also the occasion where farcebook took the liberty to create an <lusername>@facebook.com email address that was publicly usable (although mail sent to it ended up in a folder on facebook that was only barely visible when you dug down into several menus), linked it to each luser's (person A) profile as the primary email address (the email address entered by person A's choice ended up as a secondary address), and then synced it back to everyone's contact database on their phones, overwriting the email address entered by person B about person A in person B's contact database in an irreversable change that actually lost person B's customisations on person A? My memory, as faulty as it usually is, tells me this affected apple IOS devices worse than Android, despite IOS's supposedly superior security model. Gah, technology. Nuke it all and start again. -- Tim Connors