I don't understand how this makes apps crash and burn. Can you explain how does Angry Birds crashes and/or burns when it can't access the internet? Can you explain how a fart app will be broken when it returns a fake contact list?
It depends how the program was created. Programmers have to make assumptions, if one of these is broken, and the programmer hasn't 'handled' it, then the program will either crash or show bugs. Programmers do cut a lot of corners, where they feel assumptions are safe, and assuming the the permissions will be there is one of them.
I'd post logcats but I've already flashed new nightlies without the patch. The manifest method of requesting permissions in Android is a guarantee. Applications don't test for the availability or presence of permissions for things that they declare in their manifests. Because they have no reason to have to test for them. When they're not granted and the system retunrs an error or exception... it's not caught because it should, according to the API, never ever happen.
How would that not make an application crash? Additionally, returning fake data has it's own problems including at the very least integrity.
