Mike also had ongoing debates with Dianne, on the framework team. Many of the battery problems were coming from poor behavior in apps, which would do things like hold a wake lock100 too long, but the users would just blame Android overall. “I was pushing for a more explicit system where if an app goes into the background, you force-release the resource. So basically a less flexible platform. Dianne was under the firm belief that it’s not the platform’s fault, it’s the developers’, and the right fix is to educate all these app developers. “This was a battle we had for years.”
