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Re:Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones by zelon88 on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @11:51AM (#18293460)
Absolutely this. I am dumbfounded that some mobile applications are so painful to use when they really don't need to be. Take Snapchat for example. Why is Facebook and Instagram multitudes faster than Snapchat at taking pictures when that's 10% of FB or IG and 95% of SC? What is SC doing that requires so many resources?

And every Reddit client ever, or Reddit in general. Shameless amount of cookies and a horribly bloated UI just to do the same thing they were doing 10 years ago with double the client resource usage.

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Re:Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones by bildung on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @12:16PM (#18293758)
> And every Reddit client ever, or Reddit in general. Shameless amount of cookies and a horribly bloated UI just to do the same thing they were doing 10 years ago with double the client resource usage.

The amazing/sad thing is reddit with other clients can be blazingly fast. I just tried redreader from the f-droid store (android open source store) and using it feels like the content is loaded locally.

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Re:Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @01:22PM (#18294442)
They presumably make it slow ("conservative"!) to limit server resources, to limit costs.
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Re:Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones by jen729w on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @04:01PM (#18295843)
Give Apollo a go, runs great on my iPhone SE.
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