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If phone apps followed a proper runtime lifecycle -- start, use, terminate -- and phones had proper task management this would be visible front-and-center and w
by tomc1985 9y ago
If phone apps followed a proper runtime lifecycle -- start, use, terminate -- and phones had proper task management this would be visible front-and-center and wouldn't be an issue.
And I don't share this author's view on notifications... most of the messaging delivered to me via notifications is neither urgent nor time-sensitive. Notifications are a nuisance
- khedoros1 9y agoI disable most notifications. Basically everything besides sms and e-mail (and only for some accounts that tend to get 2-3 messages a day). The ones that remain activated tend to be reasonably urgent, and the apps that receive them are the ones that I'd like to start as soon as the phone boots and keep permanently in memory. Or at least, I'd like my remaining notifications to be able to wake up the apps they belong to.
- tomc1985 9y agoMe too, yet theres always more to block. Especially on Android. And if you do block notifications? Some apps needle you about it relentlessly!
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoThe entire purpose of notifications is to bring urgent and/or time-sensitive things to your attention. If you're getting notifications you don't want, it's on you to turn them off.
- yfufufucycf 9y agoTotally. I agree 100%. App makers have a financial incentive to make their apps as addictive and engaging as possible. Notifications are a key tool. The above article is basically nakedly advancing their own financial agenda, but it's for the greater good. Remove the structural impediment to maximum addictiveness. Let the users fend for themselves! Who cares that their battery life will suffer even if they opt out of a given app. That's the penalty we all must pay to live in a notification poppin' utopia not unlike the most acclaimed episodes of star trek.