[dlenski]

As I understand it, only Apple's own apps get the magical blessing to run in the background whenever they want.

[gkbrk]

Hmm, seems anti-competitive.

[immibis]

In Europe it's been ruled that since Apple makes no pretense of being competitive, they don't have to be, while Google has to actually deliver on their open platform promises.

[actionfromafar]

Anti trust enforcement was tried briefly at the turn of the century but was deemed unprofitable for oligarchs, so it is no longer in fashion.

[Georgelemental]

Eh, it has seen a mini resurgence recently

[mikepurvis]

This affects other Bluetooth-using apps too, like the Fitbit app needs to be periodically restarted in order to get data synced from a tracker.