Android engineer speaks his mind about OnePlus' benchmark shenanigans

However, co-founder Carl Pei addressed this issue by stating that this profile is indeed used when the user boots up a game and will also kick in at app launches to reduce loading times. "OK", critics said, "but aren't you exposing the phone to overheating risks that way?". No specific answer has been given yet.

Now, Tim Murray — Google Senior Staff Software Engineer and Android performance lead (mainly working on the Pixel) — has spoken his mind on the issue via a series of tweets. And yes, Mr. Murray is highly critical of the practice of "app detection and frequency ramping". In his words, he has actually spoken to a lot of Android manufacturers and specifically insisted against them doing this... twice.

Mr. Murray's main concerns is that this sort of practice risks battery life and threatens to introduce overheating dangers. The full tweetstorm can be seen below.