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Exactly my first thought on reading the headline. "Oh, really? Then thanks for prioritizing my battery life and general UX over cheaper app development, Apple!"
by ashark 9y ago
Exactly my first thought on reading the headline. "Oh, really? Then thanks for prioritizing my battery life and general UX over cheaper app development, Apple!"
- mitchty 9y agoExactly. I remember hearing "eight megs and constantly swapping" as a joke, I think for anything javascript app related I can now say: 8 watts and constantly increasing The amount of energy javascript pages now take makes me in some ways wish we had the ease of blocking crap like flash back in the day to not make my fans spin. Also a webpage or app taking up 900MiB of memory? Really, this is what I want? Hell no, i'll stick to what I have thank you very much. Certain web developers are an interesting breed of late.
- thehardsphere 9y ago>Certain web developers are an interesting breed of late. We live in an age of unparalleled abundance. "Evolution" no longer selects as aggressively against devs who are inefficient.
- wolfgke 9y ago> "Evolution" no longer selects as aggressively against devs who are inefficient. It still does - but now efficiency is measured in development/maintenance time.