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If I understand your question correctly I think the Apple FAQ page says how it propagated. Basically there were services offering faster downloads of Xcode (pre
by tbrock 11y ago
If I understand your question correctly I think the Apple FAQ page says how it propagated. Basically there were services offering faster downloads of Xcode (presumably locally) in China. My guess is that the apple downloads were crawling to a halt and someone offered up an alternative.
The page also says Apple is working on making it faster for them.
- mikeash 11y agoConnections from China to places outside of China generally suck, regardless of load. I don't know if it's the Great Firewall getting in the way, or just underprovisioned links, or what, but you can have a super-fast connection for stuff locally, and then try to hit something outside the country and you're seeing something like 500kbps speeds and 600ms latency. If you're lucky. Apple has said that they will now cache downloads inside China to mitigate this.