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What kind of implications on battery life does this have? As in, constantly running the webcam.

• mehuln 14y ago
  James. You can easily turn it off thru menu bar icon when not using it. In our tests it results on ~10-20% additional drain. We hope to make utility high enough so that it doesn't matter.
  • alttab 14y ago
    Really curious: what problem are you solving besides "pausing music when you have many windows open" that would justify saying it is high utility? Pausing music is a moot point if you use a Mac and iTunes. Speech recognition built into the os can do this. "can't reach" is such a first world problem that building an application for it is laughable. Am I missing something?
    • mehuln 14y ago
      @alttab - thanks for your view point. We meant to say that we will add enough utility overtime. Interestingly enough 80% of our downloads are also non-us so may be it is a wide spread problem. Thx!
      • alttab 14y ago
        What is your revenue model? I'm not the best guy to value your services as I use bash, vi, and Grep for everything. I understand the love for technology but the amount of time spent building this app seems a little silly considering it is as far from solving world hunger as one could get.
  • xmmx 14y ago
    If your laptop is far away enough to need this app, I think it's a reasonable assumption that it's plugged in (or else you could just bring it next to you and use the media buttons or space bar to pause the music).
    • mehuln 14y ago
      Thank you - completely agreed!