[apexalpha]

>WHY?

Because China.

Having lived in China for a few months with an Android phone I can with absolute certainty tell you that this is needed over there. The amount of garbage apps, even from big companies like baidu is enourmous!

And without a Google playstore, or play services, or play safety thing it is an absolute wild-west of background alarms, API calls, battery draining and whatnot.

[mfoy_]

Sorry, how does rounding to the nearest minute or nearest TEN minutes solve any problems?

Like are apps setting alarms for every 3 seconds or something for no reason??

[apexalpha]

Yes. Rounding to 10 min means you fire up the cpu and do all apps at once then go idle.

[mfoy_]

Oh, so when we say "alarms" we mean "background processes that occur at set intervals"?

Not literally "alarms", like the ones that ring?

[richardwhiuk]

Both.