Sandboxing should prevent most of those issues. We can't control the users giving permissions to everything, but with more control on those permissions, or disabled by default, a phone should stay pretty safe, or am I missing something?
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Can you please explain why there is no big push from the Google and Apple to remove microphone and camera access from the browsers? You claim that most users are "less skilled" and will allow anything , so for the grater good why not pushing to remove microphone, camera and file upload permissions? Why do we trust this users with reading a popup for permissions ?
Or maybe if the popups are not clear or good enough maybe is not the users fault ?
Though, that document also states:
> Our research [1] finds that users often make rational decisions on the most used capabilities on the web today — notifications, geolocation, camera, and microphone. All of them have in common that there is little uncertainty about how these capabilities can be abused. In user interviews, we find that people have clear understanding of abuse potentials: notifications can be very annoying; geolocation can be used to track where one was and thus make more money off ads; and camera and microphone can be obviously used to spy on one’s life. Even though there might be even worse abuse scenarios, users aren't entirely clueless what could possibly go wrong.