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Wouldn't that disrupt the usage of a phone as a server?
oh fuck I can't stop laughing
You joke but people do that. I've seen people repurpose their old android phones to host small services on their home networks. I won't comment on how reasonable it is because battery, but it's a thing.
I really doubt an iOS update will affect people using android phones as servers.
It would affect me. I have an android virtual machine running on my iPhone.
could be a simple hot spot cell backup, like for reporting network outage, remoting in to certain devices, etc. essentially a secondary ISP to report on main isp and troubleshoot. especially if you have smart devices you could reboot remotely.
An iPhone is not going to be that. This isn't phones in general doing this, just iPhones.
There are also far more efficient devices for that. More cost effective and more energy efficient.
I understand wanting to reuse old devices for something, but there's a limit to what is power efficient as well.
I'm not saying someone should, but they could. and necessity trumps efficiency every time.
When it comes to iPhones, it's not a shouldn't, it's a can't.
The way iOS limits background process means you can't. I develop for iOS apps for a living.
There's still you should never under any circumstances allow unsupported devices to be exposed to the internet or any way. Because that's how we get bot nets causing DDOS attacks.
my comment wasn't about iPhones. and it is possible to do what I said with android
Except this whole article doesn't apply to android. Android AFAIK has 0 announced plans to do this. So why is it a concern?
That's it!! Now I will NEVER use an iPhone as a server. 😋
iPhone? Don't these kill apps after a few minutes in background?
*seconds. KDE Connect dying the moment I turn off the iPad annoys me to this day.
It’s not that simple. iOS has a really sophisticated system for deciding which things to keep in memory and which to evict, and it only does that when it needs more resources. Choosing which apps to kill is based on how recently an app was used, how much of share resources are in use, how often the app gets used, if it’s doing background processing, and other more subtle signals.
Usually if people notice apps being killed when in the background a lot it’s because one of the apps they’re switching to is using a lot of resources, which forces the eviction of other apps.
Interesting, tell me more please. I presume it requires loading a different OS image as standard iPhone/android OS images will pause apps and attempt to go into a deep sleep after a long enough period?
A phone server that is disconnected from cellular is already broken anyways.