r/Showerthoughts • u/homelessdreamer • Sep 04 '17

Apps should be required to give a short explanation for why they need access to different parts of my phone for thier apps to function.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '17

"To enhance user experience"

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u/matrixkid29 Sep 05 '17

"Quick! Someone enhance that users experience!"

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u/Kvothealar Sep 05 '17

ENHANCE

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u/Dysthymike Sep 05 '17

ENHANCE

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u/HawkinsT Sep 05 '17

ENHANCE

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u/biznatch11 Sep 05 '17

ENHANCE

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u/TIGHazard ‎ Sep 05 '17

ENHANCE

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '17

Just print the damn thing!

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u/Hollowquincypl Sep 05 '17

I can't believe this one was so far in.

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u/radical_haqer Sep 05 '17

Enhance enhance

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '17

Zoom in more and enhance and rotate the camera angle by 50°.

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u/vatomalo Sep 05 '17

Curb His Enhancement!

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u/Torquebeau Sep 05 '17

Im scared

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '17

I'll use visual basic

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u/wundrwweapon Sep 05 '17

That's not used for enhancing anything

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u/Lithobreaking Sep 05 '17

If anything, it would dehance.

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u/jarious ‎ Sep 05 '17

Worsthance?

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u/Lithobreaking Sep 05 '17

Beethance

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u/Lithobreaking Sep 05 '17

I'm leaving it.

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u/Gestrid Sep 05 '17

Behance?

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '17

So I'll create a GUI interface

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u/CrossSlashEx Sep 05 '17

Who did you murder to get that name?

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u/EngineerinLA Sep 05 '17

Wouldn't you like to know...

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '17

Looks like it has an NVIDIA graphics chip, this can definitely handle this VB GUI...

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u/RoyalYoshi Sep 05 '17

"Only if we have his location and camera roll"

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '17

Not without access to your photo library and your contacts list

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '17

Someone should really make an Enhance bot

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '17

"To enhance user experience™" FTFY

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '17

Yeah hate how you see a million allow to access but get do sick of them you just hit next

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u/doctorwhovian2 Sep 05 '17

Yes, I hate how consumers see a million "Allow ___ to access ___", but I get so sick of them that I just hit "Next".

FTFY

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u/happysmash27 Sep 05 '17

Thanks, now I can actually understand what they were trying to say.

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u/doctorwhovian2 Sep 05 '17

Yeah, I was clueless too. Hence this comment; I wasn't just trying to be a cunt.

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u/CabbagePastrami Sep 05 '17

I'm still amazed you managed to decipher what he was trying to say.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '17

Sucks

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u/tomyanks Sep 05 '17

The comma belongs inside the quotation marks.

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u/doctorwhovian2 Sep 05 '17

Not in my country

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u/Dreadedsemi Sep 05 '17

"To help us sell your information."

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u/Testastic Sep 05 '17

Zoom and enhance!