Wireless Power and Battery Life Anxiety

[pondermunk]

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/07/wireless-power-and-battery-life-anxiety/

[DaveSapien]

"Mobile apps and operating systems’ power usage continues to rise", Citation please.

It's my understanding that power usage trends are going down on mobile.

[sliverstorm → DaveSapien]

Batteries have been getting bigger, hardware has been getting more power efficient- and yet:

Since the first iPhone in 2007, net battery life as measured by iPhone standby time has remained flat

[AndrewDucker → sliverstorm]

More power-efficient _for the same tasks_. Screens have been getting larger, applications have been doing more.