{"id":695,"date":"2010-05-19T08:26:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T08:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=695"},"modified":"2010-05-19T08:26:11","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T08:26:11","slug":"heh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=695","title":{"rendered":"Heh."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/androinica.com\/2010\/05\/19\/google-blames-android-battery-woes-on-user-practices-and-poorly-designed-apps\/\">the official excuse<\/a> is going to be &#8220;you shouldn&#8217;t be running so many third-party apps.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At this point, it&#8217;s largely a philosophical dispute about whether users should be allowed to drive their car into a ditch or not. \u00a0Google, being a company run by engineers, sees no problem with this. \u00a0Apple, being a company run by marketers, insists on protecting you from yourself &#8211; even against your will &#8211; because people might think the device sucks if the battery comes up short.<\/p>\n<p>You can make an argument either way &#8211; I think the iPhone would have been dead on arrival if they had enabled that sort of multitasking, or 3G, or GPS, because terrible battery life would have strangled the baby in the crib &#8211; but you can&#8217;t really repeal physics. \u00a0And the fact is, if you put a bigger load on the processor by multi-tasking, it will consume more power, and the battery will not last as long. \u00a0Period, paragraph. \u00a0Buy the ticket, take the ride, and no amount of magic pixie-dust will solve that.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ETA: try this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loopinsight.com\/2010\/05\/19\/google-says-multitasking-apps-hurt-androids-battery-life\/\">link<\/a>, the first one was gobsmacked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like the official excuse is going to be &#8220;you shouldn&#8217;t be running so many third-party apps.&#8221; At this point, it&#8217;s largely a philosophical dispute about whether users should be allowed to drive their car into a ditch or not. \u00a0Google, being a company run by engineers, sees no problem with this. \u00a0Apple, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=695\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heh.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}