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Re:Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like ... by zamalek on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @08:35AM (#10464032)
There's a very informative XMPP XEP[1] with mobile considerations that touches on what you said (although that analogy of yours is great!). Where my problem lies is: even if I was the cleaner at Whatsapp or FB I'd be making noise about battery life, I'd do everything I could. Put another way: I struggle to understand how a company that is about mobile doesn't put being a good mobile citizen first and foremost.

It's not that hard to open a TCP connection, or heck, even a WebSocket. HTTP 1.1 is clearly the wrong application to use here.

[1]: http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0286.html#power

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Re:Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like ... by wlesieutre on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @05:00PM (#10467367)
> Put another way: I struggle to understand how a company that is about mobile doesn't put being a good mobile citizen first and foremost.

Lack of accountability? All the complaints I hear about battery life are aimed at manufacturers, rather than the crap that we shovel on them and forget about. Facebook taking flak over their recent background audio problems was a rare exception.

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Re:Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like ... by zamalek on Thursday October 29, 2015 @03:09AM (#10469650)
> Lack of accountability?

Accountability comes with the functionality that allows you to see which apps are using battery. I recently upgraded to WP 10 and got a notification saying "some background apps are using a lot of battery," which is how I became aware of the culprit.

That notification is a very smart idea and I hope to see it at some point on Android/iPhone.

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Re:Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like ... by vanderZwan on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @07:03PM (#10468042)
That's why AT&T (of all companies) has a team dedicated to teaching app developers how to make better behaving apps (the lecture I attended was by one of their guys).
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