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Re:Billions without Buzz by mrkurt on Friday June 27, 2014 @06:18PM (#7956535)
That's not where growth is, that's just the source of the largest volume of data. Mobile productivity apps (actually, most apps) don't need a huge volume of data, they need to do valuable things for a group of people.
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Re:Billions without Buzz by jchrisa on Friday June 27, 2014 @11:33PM (#7957342)
If you are in the middle of the ocean with a bunch of shipping containers, it'd be nice to browse their individual temperature readings on a tablet, without relying on the cloud.
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