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Re:Why Xiaomi, Lenovo, and Huawei Can't Compete with Apple by kristiandupont on Monday February 15, 2016 @03:41PM (#11105778)
You can do that with the internet -- what is the benefit to this, besides from privacy? I can see that aspect in it, but I don't think the business case in that is as big as you are making it.

Every time there's a privacy issue with Facebook, HN is up in arms declaring Facebook dead but the truth of the matter is that most people just don't care.

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Re:Why Xiaomi, Lenovo, and Huawei Can't Compete with Apple by contingencies on Monday February 15, 2016 @09:59PM (#11107639)
what is the benefit to this, besides from privacy?

Cost. Developing world people ... they maybe walk to market, maybe visit another village, they don't want to drop huge money on mobile data, which is stupid slow anyway and developers don't care about their use case. With local mesh it's fast enough that things work anyway.

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