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> Uber already does this by increasing fares when it detects a phone battery is dying. Holy crap, everything I read about Uber just makes it seem worse and wor
by wlll 8y ago
> Uber already does this by increasing fares when it detects a phone battery is dying.
Holy crap, everything I read about Uber just makes it seem worse and worse.
- Silhouette 8y agoOf course, the next question we should all be asking is why your own phone is betraying you to a commercial service by providing that information to their app in the first place.
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoWell the idea was that an app might be able to adjust what it did to help preserve battery life. The reality is "woohoo, free money." #enable price_gouging.
- Silhouette 8y agoWell the idea was that an app might be able to adjust what it did to help preserve battery life. That argument never really made much sense, though. Battery life is an issue with any mobile device, so if you could do something more efficiently in your app, why wouldn't you be doing it all the time anyway? I could see an argument for some sort of critical "this device is about to shut down" notification, but there's no reason that couldn't require explicit permission when an app asks to use it, and in any case it's much less subject to abuse than a general indicator of battery remaining.
- lallysingh 8y agoTradeoffs. Fewer animations, lower frame rate in videos or games, etc.
- maxerickson 8y agoCould implement those as a permission or setting, I wouldn't mind the Uber app being in low power mode all the time.