John de Largentaye on Nostr: npub178rvt…sqekt yes, it's for battery conservation. Screen updates are expensive, ...

npub178rvtslm3qykq8uy5afswta2qz5pk9atjxsepht4x8ldddssp6kq4sqekt (npub178r…qekt) yes, it's for battery conservation. Screen updates are expensive, as it requires powering up various parts of the SoC. The less that's done, the better.

Apple decided to go with a color LCD (actually OLED these days) display, which enables great UI, but much of its UX is hobbled by power mitigations