Apps and Battery Life

The article I read is: Closing Apps to Save Your Battery Only Makes Things Worse

I've seen a few articles about this on Google Play Newsstand, and have been ignoring them. Why did I finally give and click on it? Because Ting decided to post it to their Facebook page.

I'm neither going to agree nor disagree with the articles, simply because it depends on how you use your phone. I hardly use my phone, so I get home from work with about 90% battery life. I have a set of countdown timers running (because it's easy to lose track of time when I'm focused), and only really poke around on my phone during lunch.

I've always closed apps because I don't want it using CPU/RAM. Yes, the automatic resource management has gotten better over the years, but every-so-often I'll notice the phone lagging a bit, to find that I left a ton of apps open. This is mainly why I'm not going to agree or disagree with the article, because it's really a case-by-case issue. For the general public that spends almost every free second on their phone, yes it's great advice, but for light users, it might not be the best idea.