All Web Developers Should Stop Doing This Immediately

Re:All Web Developers Should Stop Doing This Immediately by kyberias on Thursday February 16, 2012 @04:00AM (#3597918)

The author does not _want_ to download an app because it is "antisocial use of public bandwidth". What exactly is social use of the bandwidth then? Is this kind of attitude common?

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Re:All Web Developers Should Stop Doing This Immediately by jonpacker on Thursday February 16, 2012 @04:20AM (#3597965)

Furthermore, the author was just about to stream a video which would likely be much larger than the app itself.

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Re:All Web Developers Should Stop Doing This Immediately by alexchamberlain on Thursday February 16, 2012 @04:11AM (#3597947)

I agree to an extent; I try to avoid downloading apps when I'm not on WiFi - mobile internet is slow enough as it is!

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Re:All Web Developers Should Stop Doing This Immediately by jackalope on Thursday February 16, 2012 @08:24AM (#3598461)

I'd be very uncomfortable downloading an app on a foreign network simply because a single web page told me to do so. I'm sure I'm more paranoid than most, but that's an easy way to get phished. I'm surprised the author didn't cite that as a reason.

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Re:All Web Developers Should Stop Doing This Immediately by mjwalshe on Thursday February 16, 2012 @04:46AM (#3598026)

Makess sense when you see how much mobile data costs.

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