Guess: many people would tap OK without thinking about it (they don’t understand or care what background means) then would be unhappy that their battery drains..
More generally, how are background streaming services supposed to work on the iPhone? Does Apple have to individually approve every app that wishes to do so (ex Spotify, Pandora, ...)?
In many situations we may not have better solutions, but that doesn‘t change the fact that this is terrible.
I'm having trouble interpreting this in any way other than a claim that granting users control over their devices is a fundamentally broken idea. I won't dispute that users often choose to do dumb things in practice, but it seems the two of us have a fundamental disagreement in our underlying worldviews.
> Even technically competent users ... no matter what you actually write
I'd argue that such users aren't actually technically competent then, despite the high opinion they might have of themselves. On the other hand, perhaps the users are technically competent and it's actually the relevant software developers that have done a poor job of communicating? If an actual technically competent user is experiencing significant difficulties using a program, then perhaps the program doesn't work as well as the developers thought it did.