> Blame the language and not the platform is what you're essentially saying. Ok so initial payload can be what 600kb per your argument. But at least once I have

> Blame the language and not the platform is what you're essentially saying. Ok so initial payload can be what 600kb per your argument. But at least once I have delivered that my actual interactions on the server side can be somewhat a minimum instead of re-rendering more HTML and sending across the wire to the handset. Unless your mobile browser aggressively purges its cache due to the limited memory on most mobile devices. Then you're going to have to reload the payload every time you bring the page to the foreground; or at a minimum reload the framework (which usually takes a noticeable amount of time as the framework creates a bunch of temporary data structures).