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by dotancohen 2326 days ago

    > therefore mobile software is developed to
    > use very little electricity.
I see that you're _not_ in the mobile dev industry! Power consumption is the type of thing that is talked about in prerelease mobile software, and removed from the bullet points during release. Nobody optimizes for power consumption at the expense of features, bugs, or developer time.