Honestly, I can't disagree with you on technical terms, because what you're saying makes sense and on other topics this discussion would be over. But in this c

Honestly, I can't disagree with you on technical terms, because what you're saying makes sense and on other topics this discussion would be over. But in this case, I have Conversations on my phone and can say from experience that it didn't degrade my battery life whatsoever. I know that android restricts this behaviour heavily by default and for good reason, because lots of apps will drain the battery in a matter of hours. No idea how the conversations devs do it, there must be a quirk to it I don't know which makes modem usage acceptable. I'm not a zealot in this case and I accept the flaws, but I can't leave you thinking mobile xmpp hurts the battery in a relavant way because that's (in my experience) not true. I'm not deep into xmpp xep standards, but I'd imagine theres a way to tell the server "I don't care about event type x please don't send those until I ask for them again"