Originally Posted by sacherjj:
OK, let me put a cool app in the catalog that does something you really like. Oh, while you aren't noticing, I'm also uploading all your contacts and photos taken on your phone to another website. And you instant messages and SMS messages. Oh, yeah, reading your email too.
Palm is still working out the security profiles. I'm better with better safe than sorry. Perhaps you don't have data on your phone you wouldn't mine the whole world seeing. I do.
I run the same risk with every application I download for any desktop operating system. Iron fisted application stores are the not answer to malware. Like I said, they cause more problems than they solve.
Like communism, app stores (being the exclusive way to install applications), only look good on paper. In practice they don't work out so well for the people.