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by walkabout 249 days ago
I think the bigger problem would be that desktop programs aren’t designed with iOS-style suspension and process-killing in mind.
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Desktop apps already survive standby, so CPU usage shouldn't be a problem. And if automatically killing Mac apps, to free up memory, isn't an option, they could add a permanent notification which says "Mac App XYZ still consumes a lot of memory, tap here to close." Or they move the offending Mac app from RAM to temporary SSD storage as long as the phone isn't plugged into a monitor.