> Now one could imagine a system where the OS coordinates this and signals to apps that the system is going to transmit now, and that they should trigger their

> Now one could imagine a system where the OS coordinates this and signals to apps that the system is going to transmit now, and that they should trigger their own requests, bundling them in the process FWIW this would happen quite naturally if the system simply used flexible timers for these sorts of wakeups. It's an accepted, even trivial solution to the "need to power something up on an infrequent and perhaps unpredictable basis, and have it be used seamlessly by multiple apps" use case. Centralized services are nice but they shouldn't be the only way for a system to get notified about stuff.