Doug S (foo.delete@this.bar.bar) on September 13, 2021 3:05 pm wrote:
> So I'm skeptical that the average iPhone or Android owner could figure out which apps are using "too
> much" battery - especially if that extra usage is merely due to insistence on scheduling itself on the
> big cores at highest clock rates. A poorly written app might require 5x the instruction count per unit
> of "function" versus a well written app. If that well written app insists on scheduling on big cores
> maybe it uses 2x the power it would otherwise. It would still use only 40% the power of the poorly written
> app - so you still can't tell which apps are wasting battery unnecessarily by self-scheduling.

Yes, users do note when an app is using too much battery, because when they are in the wating room at the doctor they take their phone and start playing something, if the game is a poorly written casual game the battery will run out too fast and the user will get bored waiting, so for the next time the user will uninstall this game and try another.