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Anecdata: I pretty much never go on Facebook anymore and now my phone battery comfortably lasts all day. The current worst app on my phone is Duolingo, it guzzl
by willyt 4y ago
Anecdata: I pretty much never go on Facebook anymore and now my phone battery comfortably lasts all day. The current worst app on my phone is Duolingo, it guzzles 15% in about 15 mins and makes the phone noticeably hot. The most impressive app is Apple Music which feels like it should use a lot of battery but doesn’t.
- scarface74 4y agoWhy would a music app use a lot of battery? Apple has been optimizing its hardware for over 20 years to play media efficiently.
- macintux 4y agoI bought the first iPad, and one road trip I drove a couple of hours playing music (whether via wired output or from its speakers I don't recall). I was pleasantly surprised to discover on arrival that I still had 100% battery life.
- willyt 4y agoBoth apple music and Duolingo are basically just downloading sound files from the internet and playing them. One can do it all day and barely drop 10% battery. The other would drain your phone in an hour. OK Duolingo sometimes does some speech recognition but I bet that’s done server side and it’s downloading/uploading way less data than Apple Music.
- epistemer 4y agoJust find a good Anki deck and get rid of Duolingo. To me, Duolingo is just a spaced repetition gateway drug to Anki.