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Re:No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app by nodata on Monday February 04, 2013 @06:31AM (#5163571)
Most of the time the app does not predownload all of the content in advance though.
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Re:No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app by larsberg on Monday February 04, 2013 @06:43AM (#5163599)
The Reuters app _used_ to download all the content and then was changed not to. Who does that?
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Re:No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app by DanWaterworth on Monday February 04, 2013 @07:02AM (#5163653)
Someone who can see the bandwidth cost, but not the utility.
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Re:No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app by ollysb on Monday February 04, 2013 @08:03AM (#5163847)
It's static content, how much could it cost?
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Re:No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app by duncans on Monday February 04, 2013 @08:42AM (#5164003)
the cost of the bandwidth
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Re:No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app by ollysb on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @08:01AM (#5170402)
I mean, if the content is cached in a CDN the bandwidth is going to be negligible.
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Re:No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app by bencollier49 on Monday February 04, 2013 @06:59AM (#5163643)
The bloke in charge of the server budget.
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