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So they didn't explicitly ship a feature to drain users' batteries, they seem to have shipped a feature that does tests (testing how long downloading different
by helsinkiandrew 4y ago
So they didn't explicitly ship a feature to drain users' batteries, they seem to have shipped a feature that does tests (testing how long downloading different image downloads take etc.) that drains a users batteries.
It's not clear to me why they wouldn't run a few tests for a few seconds across many/all of their hundreds of millions of users so the battery drain would be unnoticeable, rather than enough on a single user where it would be noticeable.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 4y agoI read it as one of the tests being intentionally draining user's batteries, e.g. to see how important it is to optimize for battery ("we see X% lower engagement from users in the battery hungry category, so we should invest more in optimizing the app for that").