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Re:The Internet Economy by amelius on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @03:27PM (#11669877)
> That would have made the performance far worse in particular on low end devices.

Well, the most important thing people do, even on low-end devices, is browse the web.

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Re:The Internet Economy by 0xsnowcrash on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @01:26AM (#11672805)
Arguably not. But even with this use case, the Web has got significantly more complex. Local Storage, local databases, GPS access, gesture detection to name a few. That all hits Web performance hard especially on earlier mobile devices.
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Re:The Internet Economy by c1sc0 on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @03:54PM (#11670109)
No, that would be IM/chat these days
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Re:The Internet Economy by amelius on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @04:23PM (#11670353)
Ok. But does that require more performance than webbrowsing?
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Re:The Internet Economy by LoSboccacc on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @05:26PM (#11670796)
See: http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/11/mark-zuckerberg-our-biggest...
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