"Amazingly, the trick even works when the phone is just sitting there, its screen black, and sleeping. Say “text by voice” and it wakes up"
I'm pretty sure this is impossible without aggressive battery draw. Altho if you're driving you can be using a car charger. The GPS already makes this neccessary unless you want to risk killing your phone before it guides you home.
It would be nice if they could hook into the 'car dock' app or google maps nav - so that their background service auto launches when those launch. I believe that's possible with some egregious permissions.
Also maybe get the 'charger in' permission and actively listen whenever the phone is plugged in.
All the credit for getting background listening working seamlessly goes to my cofounder Curtis. He's a beast.
We already launch automatically on the phone docking with a car dock, and have other triggers you can specify like on Bluetooth connect and when the GPS detects you're moving more than 10mph.
Right now the battery draw is significant if you keep the app on all the time (about 5-7% an hour in our tests). This is unacceptable to us, so we've been working on reducing it, and still have a good number of technical tricks up our sleeve.
>I'm pretty sure this is impossible without battery rape.
I'm starting to sound like a broken record on HN about this, but this kind of comment trivializes actual, no-kidding rape by comparing it to a low battery, and comes across as inherently misogynistic even if you didn't intend it that way.
If we really want to be serious about opening up tech and getting more women involved, and more importantly if we want a world with less rape in it, we've got to cut this kind of thing out.
If he said it "kills the battery" would you say that it trivializes actual, no-kidding murder? I doubt it.
Also, men can get raped too. I don't just mean women raping men; men rape men too. (Would a "Don't drop the soap" joke be too inappropriate here?) It could be argued that assuming only women can be raped is the misogynistic position.
Last, saying that we've got to cut this out "if we want a world with less rape in it" is, frankly, ridiculous. Nobody is going to read the "battery rape" comment and subsequently be more likely to rape someone.
Using it in this context is perhaps strong but definitely appropriate. Also, as kdommeyer noted, "kill" is commonly used in similar contexts (to kill an engine fe).
Apparently the term "rape" in terms of depletion of a resource (as in "rape of the rainforest", "rape of the ocean", etc) isn't keeping women out of the environmental movement. Not so sure how it causes actual rapes to occur, either.
I'm pretty sure this is impossible without aggressive battery draw. Altho if you're driving you can be using a car charger. The GPS already makes this neccessary unless you want to risk killing your phone before it guides you home.
It would be nice if they could hook into the 'car dock' app or google maps nav - so that their background service auto launches when those launch. I believe that's possible with some egregious permissions.
Also maybe get the 'charger in' permission and actively listen whenever the phone is plugged in.
Cool idea.