Why is the OS even making that info available to them? That should require at the very least explicit consent (maybe a, like, “hey, dickhead, let us know how desperate you are so we can charge you more up the ass” alert)
I can imagine an engineer working on the OS going “we’ll expose battery info via this API. Responsible developers can then use this to, like, turn off battery intensive operations when the charge is low”. Something naive and optimistic like that
Why is the OS even making that info available to them? That should require at the very least explicit consent (maybe a, like, “hey, dickhead, let us know how desperate you are so we can charge you more up the ass” alert)
I can imagine an engineer working on the OS going “we’ll expose battery info via this API. Responsible developers can then use this to, like, turn off battery intensive operations when the charge is low”. Something naive and optimistic like that
It’s an extremely rare vector for any sort of attack. I’m sure people didn’t consider the most evil of evil abusing it in these kind of scenarios.