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The whole “low power mode” debacle was such a perfect example of this. Android permissions management is an insecure disaster. It’s something that would have be
by aphextron 8y ago
The whole “low power mode” debacle was such a perfect example of this. Android permissions management is an insecure disaster. It’s something that would have been physically impossible to do on iOS.
- pjmlp 8y agoSure, Apple just slows down the whole OS instead.
- woah 8y agoThey decided that battery life was more important than performance to most people. I suspect they are right about this.
- suprfnk 8y agoIt wasn't battery life, it was stability. The day Apple brought out the feature toggle for you to choose whether you wanted to throttle your device or not, I turned the throttling off. The phone was as fast as when I got it again. That same day the phone crashed, a first in a long time, because apparently the power draw was too high for the battery. Imagine if, instead of throttling, they had phones crashing left and right. I think throttling was the right choice, but they could have been more transparent about it.
- chooseaname 8y agoThey could have chosen to better match the battery with the power needs of the phone. But, they chose form over function instead.
- macintux 8y agoBatteries get old. I'm not sure what Apple can do about that.
- chooseaname 8y agoThat wasn't the issue...
- saagarjha 8y agoUh, yeah it was. Older batteries couldn't support the peak power draw, so Apple responded by throttling the CPU if necessary. Unless you have something to share?
- chooseaname 8y agoLook back through the issue. People started getting throttled within the first year when they still have 90+ percent capacity left. That's not an "older" battery.
- macintux 8y agoCitation? Apple's official statements seem to correspond to anecdata that the problems went away after a battery replacement.
- chooseaname 8y agoreddit.com
- macintux 8y agoI'm going to buy anecdata that backs up a reasonable explanation from Apple over anecdata alone.
- CaptSpify 8y agoThey could build longer lasting batteries. Load testing your product is manufacturing 101
- sf_rob 8y agoMy Pixel that crashes randomly whenever I'm below 15% battery makes me wish that Google would have made the same choice (I'm certainly making some assumptions).
- chooseaname 8y agoNo, they decided to control the narrative so that people don't call it what it is, a defect.
- chooseaname 8y agoI am not sure about LPM on ios being remotely enabled, but they can remotely disable apps. And they have a patent on remotely disabling the camera.