That Facebook is one of the apps that the increase in battery consumption causes our iPhone It’s something everyone knows, what we didn’t know is that he does it on purpose, as revealed by a former employee.
As published by the New York Post in an article, Facebook intentionally made its app consume more battery than it should on iPhone and Android smartphones. So that? It seems to be for the purpose of seeing how a low battery affects your app’s performance. Additionally, you deliberately caused the application to malfunction in order to assess the impact this has on user habits with your application.
Facebook may deliberately drain the battery of smartphones, according to a former employee. The practice, known as “negative testing”, allows tech companies to drain the battery of their users’ phones in order to test certain features of their app under those conditions, such as execution speed or download time. of a picture. .
“I told my boss that it could hurt users, and his response was that by hurting some, we’ve helped many.” These are the statements of a former Facebook employee, Hayward, 33, who reported him in federal court in Manhattan for being fired from the company in November last year for not wanting to participate in these “negative tests”
Hayward claimed thatWe have refused to participate in these rather questionable Facebook practices because it could cause significant harm. to some users. An iPhone without a battery can’t notify emergency services in the event of a fall or traffic accident, or it can prevent important calls from being made that can have unpredictable consequences for many people. Facebook hasn’t said anything about this yet.
