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Bad battery life? All those free apps could be to blame
When I see the word "free" I'm always wondering what the catch is. Maybe this is it: Researchers at Purdue University have conducted a study in conjunction with Microsoft that showed in some cases up to 75% of an app's total energy consumption was spent on locating and powering up the app's third party advertising.
Dumb tech terminology question: is CAGR a commonly-used term when talking about information growth and storage? Or is it a case of the doc author thinking they're being clever but not spelling out acronyms?
I don't think of it as "tech"? We used it all the time in marketing to financial services industry at Oracle, and in that setting a definition wasn't provided.
This is very much in a context of information wrangling, storage, and scalability, and nothing to do with the financial industry. Which is why I went "Buh?" and googled the term.
Yeah, they totally need to spell that one out for the reader.
It's not a term I know, if that counts for anything.
Or is it a case of the doc author thinking they're being clever but not spelling out acronyms?
Don't they always?
THIS IS WHY THEY NEED TO HIRE ME. Plus I just won buzzword bingo after reading two sentences in this document.
In Journalism school, they taught us to always spell out the first usage of any acronym. I wish that were the case for things that are to be read by people with a wide variety of experience.
In Journalism school, they taught us to always spell out the first usage of any acronym.
We always do that. In large part it's because we have un-American readers, and acronyms/abbreviations aren't the same in other languages (e.g., "AIDS" is "SIDA" in Spanish, and "HIV" is "VIH").
Also many acronyms are acronyms for more than one term. In my recent book the same acronym stood for a technical terms I was using and a union I was writing about. Since neither term was used much, I skipped acronyms for both. Otherwise I would have use the acronyym for the term I used most.