Yeah this. I’ll leave my iPad on my bed for 10+ hours and when I come back it’s lost maybe a percent or two of battery life. With my Android tablet I had it had to be on the charger constantly. My phones battery lasts about a day with all my apps on it, where my old android I had to charge mid day.
The ha-ha-only-serious joke when I was at a place developing for iOS and Android, so had tons of test tablets for both, was that the Android tablets would be completely dead after a long weekend (or sometimes just a normal weekend...) in a drawer, and the iPads would still have enough charge to do something useful, and still wake up effectively instantly, if you forgot about them for a month.
As for the phones, I find I get 2-day charge out of a new iOS device. After 2-3 years it's about as bad as a new Android. 10% low-battery warning, and put in low-power mode right at bed time? It'll still have enough juice for the morning alarm and some morning HN reading. I mean, I try not to rely on that, but it does work. Difference has got to mostly be the software & firmware.
