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| Quote: Motorola has blamed performance-hogging, battery draining apps for 70% of Android handsets that get returned. Sanjay Jha, CEO of Motorola Mobility, said the Android Market's openness means there's nothing to prevent poor-quality apps from being sold to customers. "For power consumption and CPU use, those apps are not tested," he told the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Technology, according to a report from Computerworld. "We're beginning to understand the impact that has." Jha said a solution could be found in the company's Motoblur skin, which keeps track of the apps used and how they perform. He predicted the system could soon alert users to how an app will affect their phone's performance, so they can choose not to run it - and know who to blame when the handset stops working smoothly. Unlike Apple, Google doesn't vet the apps that are sold in its Market, although it does have the ability to remove malicious software. | |
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This bit amused me:
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| Quote: "We're beginning to understand the impact that has." | |
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I'm at a loss as to why this wasn't obvious from the start? The same thing happens on battery powered laptops, why wouldn't it happen on a phone!?
Battery life if the biggest complaint I've heard from Android users (handset independent), and the lengths users go to make sure Wi-Fi is turned off and 3G is off, and this app isn't running, etc., etc., just to make it through the day without a top-up charge...Users shouldn't have to do that, Wi-Fi and 3G should be there when you need it without having to turn it on and off, and apps shouldn't be hogging the CPU when they are in the background.
