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CA May Ban Lyft and Uber from AI Price Gouging Users with Low Phone Batteries (jalopnik.com)
25 points by rntn 8 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Didn't Apple say they're going to restrict apps' access to this information? Why does an app need to know your battery percentage anyway? They should instead respect the Low Power Mode setting. Maybe I'm at 95% but I have a long day ahead of me and have enabled Low Power Mode, so use less power - thanks.


Kindof wild that the lobbyist position is not even "blah red tape, compliance blah" it's like "no we are doing this, we just contend that it's not 'inherently' predatory and it would be annoying for us to stop".




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