Don't Apple already do something similar for battery hogs? May be misremembering, but I'd have thought a similar principle applied.
Half the challenge of course would be dissuading the vendor from excluding their own apps from these notifications.
But yes, on OS X, the battery drop-down will list any apps that are consuming significant amounts of energy. For me these are constantly Chrome and Intellij IDEA.
Well, JetBrains is one of few choices that's even more of a hog than Atom.
> There seems to be an opportunity here for platform vendors like Microsoft
> or Apple to be a bit more aggressive about "this application is what's
> slowing you down" notifications.
Every time you hear someone complain about how their new PC is so slow to do $trivial_task, think again. Most users unfortunately don't know any better, nor have the inclination to teach themselves to.
Modern OS's don't really have an equivalent to that. Probably because usage has become more fragmented.
It might not be the future you or I want, but it is the future that the majority of end users want. Market forces don't always work for getting users what they want (see privacy) but in this case the money is talking. Slack's desktop app is a classic example of being a memory hog, but Slack has been enormously successful.