Google activated battery saving mode on multiple phones, then rolled it back

Re:Google activated battery saving mode on multiple phones, ... by eh78ssxv2f on Friday September 14, 2018 @02:43AM (#17985161)

> turning on/off certain features without the user's consent.

I think that in practice, that applies to only the privacy sensitive features. Would you be upset if suddenly they rolled out a feature that reduced battery consumption by 10%?

This particular case was obviously a bug, but I suppose every software manufacturer is continuously doing A/B testing, and 99% of time the user would not even notice. I would be surprised if Google was not doing A/B testing, and did not have the whole framework for doing it.

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Re:Google activated battery saving mode on multiple phones, ... by Dylan16807 on Friday September 14, 2018 @06:45AM (#17986167)

> Would you be upset if suddenly they rolled out a feature that reduced battery consumption by 10%?

If they secretly installed it, of course I would be. It's not like this is the only way to deliver features...

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Re:Google activated battery saving mode on multiple phones, ... by pritambaral on Friday September 14, 2018 @07:19AM (#17986327)

> I would be surprised if Google was not doing A/B testing

On live (not beta), unsuspecting users, without their consent?

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Re:Google activated battery saving mode on multiple phones, ... by remir on Friday September 14, 2018 @02:49AM (#17985186)

Would you be upset if suddenly they rolled out a feature that reduced battery consumption by 10%?

If you're talking about battery saving mode, I would be upset if they activated the feature (turning it on) without my consent, yes. I don't have issues with Google pushing improvement to their code via OS updates.

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