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Re:Zanzibar: Consistent, Global Authorization System by okket on Saturday June 08, 2019 @03:54PM (#20134716)
It's not servers. It's who will have the best submarine cables. A game in which Apple is not participating btw. Not even with an Elon style moon, err, low earth orbit shot.

https://blog.apnic.net/2019/04/03/the-future-of-undersea-int...

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Re:Zanzibar: Consistent, Global Authorization System by threeseed on Saturday June 08, 2019 @08:12PM (#20136087)
Apple has no need for undersea cables.

It doesn't matter if iCloud is slow or not since most of the interactions with it are in the background. And all of it's content e.g. App Store or Apple Music are cached by CDNs which are hosted in pretty much every country.

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Re:Zanzibar: Consistent, Global Authorization System by dgemm on Saturday June 08, 2019 @04:09PM (#20134829)
A bit simplistic, no? There is more than one important factor.
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