[hal9000-tng]

Why couldn't the OS simply surface a push notification of its own, that app X is consuming lots of CPU?

[yencabulator]

And have such malware figure out the threshold, and throttle themselves just slightly under it.

[wayneftw]

Then give us a control to adjust the threshold.

[stevenwliao]

How many end users prefer to adjust their phone background CPU activity alert threshold just so that some developers can use a different push notification framework?