I like the other info, but I feel like energy efficiency is completely useless as a metric for phones. They already use such miniscule amounts of power that it really doesn’t matter that much, especially compared to appliances.
…but the power draw is what sets the battery life for a particular size of battery. We don’t particularly want to set up a game that just incentivises putting bigger batteries in, so we have a metric for power draw.
I think that’s the wrong way to look at it. Times any of those metrics by the literal billions of phones out there and it adds up quite quickly.
Sure on an individual basis it might mean savings of a few bucks over the course of the lifetime of the phone, but scale that up and we’re talking entire power plant’s worth of electricity that isn’t required.
I like the other info, but I feel like energy efficiency is completely useless as a metric for phones. They already use such miniscule amounts of power that it really doesn’t matter that much, especially compared to appliances.
You don’t care about battery life?
Battery life is already on there as a separate metric
…but the power draw is what sets the battery life for a particular size of battery. We don’t particularly want to set up a game that just incentivises putting bigger batteries in, so we have a metric for power draw.
I feel this way about washing machines already. Oh wow, this one uses 0.6kwh less per wash. That’s like 30kwh a year!
meanwhile my fridge
I think that’s the wrong way to look at it. Times any of those metrics by the literal billions of phones out there and it adds up quite quickly.
Sure on an individual basis it might mean savings of a few bucks over the course of the lifetime of the phone, but scale that up and we’re talking entire power plant’s worth of electricity that isn’t required.
Agreed, it’s just that they unified it for all electronic devices.
Kinda dumb.