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Agreed. As much as it's noble to say technology companies (especially the successful ones) should care more about their users/customers, these sorts of conversations can really get off into the trolly-problem weeds of ethicizing generic tools, and generic entertainment tools going by what users spend most of their time on. At some point we, the public, have to take responsibility for our own security (or whatever else as the specific case may be) by coming up with a plan slightly more sophisticated than "Hope my angry birds machine is up to the task of literally saving my life". It feels like back in the bad old days before smartphones, every suburban dad in cargo shorts understood that if he wanted to make sure he could call into work, he had to bring an extra battery along and not waste juice on superfluous calls, and preferred separate pocket computers for time-wasting entertainment or non-critical business applications. Nowadays we've integrated the two together for convenience, but still get this outrage cropping up every so often over not matching the reliability of the older machines that were designed to primarily just be reliable. Something had to give to, erm, give us our angry birds, and customers bought giving up reliability in emergencies for convenience in the 99.9% of time that's not an emergency. Not preparing for the off chance that the computer in your pocket will prioritize something other than utility-level uptime for call-making by carrying a second phone or extra power, regardless of who, what, or how, is a naive failure to plan that needs to be addressed more deeply than whatever nonsense Facebook's up to this month. Which doesn't have to be a problem, so long as we're not pretending things are different. Users are perfectly capable of running their battery down all on their own, or installing software (or as you point out THE OPERATING SYSTEM) that runs the battery down all on its own "naturally" because everyone involved has different wants until after they've actually had a heart attack at 2% battery.


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