If a backend process is slow, you buy another server, install Hadoop or something and call the whole mess "big data". Mobile apps are known for taking ages to

If a backend process is slow, you buy another server, install Hadoop or something and call the whole mess "big data". Mobile apps are known for taking ages to load and for taking too much space. They usually block on network requests and are eager to throw information away before blocking on a request to fetch the same information again. Embedded applications know what hardware they are running on, so they can waste all of the available resources. Extending them later is often very difficult due to that. In realtime graphics the required knowledge is very specific to realtime graphics. 101 algorithms won't help you at all. In non-realtime graphics, who cares? Let's spend this quarter's budget on a redesign of the progress bar so that we can have meetings and beautiful powerpoints.