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This makes sense though. Your MPG will drop significantly if you go up a hill or slam the accelerator down. Similarly, Apple can't say for certain how much tim
by bluejekyll 10y ago
This makes sense though. Your MPG will drop significantly if you go up a hill or slam the accelerator down.
Similarly, Apple can't say for certain how much time is left, but it can say that the battery is low.
- alistairSH 10y agoAnd my car adjusts the mile-remaining indicator appropriately. If I drive with a lead foot, the mileage remaining drops faster than if I drive like a granny.
- braythwayt 10y agoI think the trouble is where a computer’s power use differs from a car’s fuel use. Almost everything affecting fuel use in a car is observable by the driver. Terrain, speed, load, &c. But while many things that affect battery use are observable by the user (streaming a movie, compiling, &c.), some are not (background tasks). Also, there’s a much broader distribution in the expertise of users in judging battery life, than in the distribution of expertise in drivers judging what will and will not affect vehicle range. I would not want to use the expertise of anybody on Hacker News as a proxy for the expertise of Apple’s median customers.