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The user experience is more important than a app developer's need. Users want better battery life. They don't want a app using it up. Feel free to block the i

• finchisko 8y ago
  >Users want better battery life. They don't want a app using it up. Everybody wants better battery life, but also their alarm app to wake them up, or tracking app to record their runs in the background, receive notification when there is new email or im message, etc. And these functionalities get disrupted by excessive battery management (killing apps in the background). Somebody thinking he knows what users want and making decision based on this assumption (without really asking user) is exactly what brought us here. We are not all the same, somebody can have bit different priorities then you.
• finchisko 8y ago
  >Feel free to block the installation of your app on devices that you feel unfairly target background apps, they'll just use a different application. reply with some devices you just can't find alternative that would work reliably in the background for example. Imagine sport tracker, that needs to record locations even when in background. You cannot just use another app, because any sport app could get killed due excessive power management. Favoring some apps by manufacturers putting them on a whitelist to prevent them from being killed should be considered as unfair practice (potentially illegal).