Verizon Names Data-Draining and Battery-Killing Apps

Re:Verizon Names Data-Draining and Battery-Killing Apps by ocean12 on Monday February 11, 2013 @12:58PM (#5202130)

I think they made at least one error: Need for Speed: Most Wanted was not developed by Rovio.

Also of interest is that none of the streaming radio services suffered in their rather proprietary ranking: http://support.verizonwireless.com/information/app_ranking/i...

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Re:Verizon Names Data-Draining and Battery-Killing Apps by tadfisher on Monday February 11, 2013 @01:19PM (#5202254)

It makes sense for a streaming radio app to acquire a wakelock, unless you want it to stop playing when the screen shuts off in 2 minutes. It does not make sense for any game to acquire a wakelock, and acquiring one is a sign that your app does not respect the Activity lifecycle and probably doesn't handle notifications or task switching well anyway. I know GTA3 absolutely sucks at this.

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