Do you think that manufacturers are not doing enough to improve battery life? (poll results)

Going through the numbers first, an overwhelming majority (92.83%) agree that smartphone vendors could be doing more, while the remaining 7.17% disagree and say they're doing enough already. As you can imagine, such a unanimous split spawned quite a few theories.

Perhaps the most interesting one is that as a market leader, Apple's iPhones — which usually post average to decent battery life — have set a pace that competitors are happy to beat by just a bit and no more. The thinking is, the theory goes, that if Apple can move tens of millions of iPhones and make so much money that they're currently sitting on a $200bn cash pile, then obviously smartphone buyers aren't that interested in battery life. Of course, if you think about this a little bit, you'll probably come to the conclusion that that's not true: the problem is more that battery life is something of an invisible quality that only reveals itself after you've doled out your hard-earned cash to buy the device. Sounds plausible.

There were other theories as well, including problems with third-parties that manufacturers face — like Android. As we ourselves know very well, Android is not at all immune to rogue/greedy apps siphoning the life out of the device, and that sure is a problem. Just a really hard one to solve, considering the open nature of the OS.

Do you agree with any of these? If not, do you have a theory of your own?