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> I'm pretty sure battery performance would drop significantly if root was too easy to achieve.

No offense, but this is one of the most absurd things I have ever read on a hackernews discussion.

I bet if I could get root on iOS I would get even better battery life as I kill off services related to iCloud and other background processes I don’t want running.

> To get good battery perf out of a device, you need to be extremely good at saying "no", even if that "no" comes at the expense of user freedom and features.

There is zero evidence that this is the case. In fact saying “no” to root allows more services and things running on the device than I may want.



you could, literally 99.99% of users wouldn't.

Also, iPhones have 20% smaller batteries for the same battery life, but there could be multiple reasons (maybe combined even) for this.




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