> ...this doesn't seem like it is at all worth giving up 1% of battery life. I view it differently. Percent of battery life isn't an interesting metric in a va

> ...this doesn't seem like it is at all worth giving up 1% of battery life. I view it differently. Percent of battery life isn't an interesting metric in a vacuum. It's whether you easily/regularly get the phone back to a charger without it feeling burdensome. That is to say, does the phone last all your waking hours without threatening to turn off. I own one of these fancy new Pixel 2's. I find that the phone is usually above 30% when I'm returning to bed at night. The music detection has proved useful at times, and a single percent of battery isn't going to make me sweat. However, in a year or two, when the battery starts losing performance, you may be right. My old phone, a 5X, often dipped close to 5% by the time I got to bed. I had to go out of my way to find a charger, which was frustrating. Sacrificing yet another bit of battery for this feature would only make that worse.