A mysterious app just showed up on your Android phone, and it’s watching your battery
THE SO WHAT
Google silently pushing Android Pulse—a no-UI diagnostic app onto 10+ million devices—highlights the tension between platform-level telemetry and user consent, especially under DMA-style rules. If your app is a heavy resource consumer, assume OS-level watchdogs will get stricter and less visible; optimize now or risk throttling and quiet user attrition.
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