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>Feel free to block the installation of your app on devices that you feel unfairly target background apps, they'll just use a different application. reply

with some devices you just can't find alternative that would work reliably in the background for example. Imagine sport tracker, that needs to record locations even when in background. You cannot just use another app, because any sport app could get killed due excessive power management.

Favoring some apps by manufacturers putting them on a whitelist to prevent them from being killed should be considered as unfair practice (potentially illegal).



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