Why are phone batteries not improving much?

FaceTime has been around for over a decade, and it seems like it eats the same amount of battery today as it did back then.

I know performance improvements consume more battery, but can’t imagine the “performance” has improved on something as simple as FaceTime over the past 10 years.

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Materials science evolves incrementally and more slowly than software. But its impact is long lasting and ubiquitous. Also, we can’t resist more software features, sensors or pixels.