[laythea]

I'm not an expert here, but if the problem is battery life (?), then surely the apps that abuse this will be outed by the users who will, by definition, see the battery getting drained faster.

Apple, how about a battery-energy per app usage display so the users can detect apps that call home/abuse battery usage, and then they can remove them? Is this something that already exists? I would suspect not, as then apple's own apps may get outed! The user could set an energy usage threshold and be told/warned that an app is misbehaving.

[colejohnson66]

I don’t understand the cynicism; That feature already exists. It’s under Settings > Battery. And users really don’t care. Facebook uses a ton of battery and people keep using their app.

[laythea]

The article says "Apps that exploited PushKit could drain iPhone batteries, Apple said." and "The basis for doing this is battery savings"