Re:People expect technology to suck because it sucks
by SilasX on Monday September 28, 2020 @01:02AM
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Increasing keystroke latency was discussed on HN before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15485672
>I would argue that multitasking, camera postprocessing, widgets, background app refresh, and others are all features worthy of more resource usage. Many of those are things you can choose not to use if you want to save power.
For all those features turned off (before and after), the usage increases with each version.
Do you have sources for this? I mean, I'm not sure there aren't rose-tinted glasses here.
> These would be arguably fine if the additional features you get were a necessary cost, but they're not.
> Each version of iOS gets more energy-intensive, for example.
I would argue that multitasking, camera postprocessing, widgets, background app refresh, and others are all features worthy of more resource usage. Many of those are things you can choose not to use if you want to save power.