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Assuming a podcast is 50MB, that would be 300k podcasts. If I'm about to jump on a flight, I may download 4-5, which would put that at about 60k people. I just
by _asummers 8y ago
Assuming a podcast is 50MB, that would be 300k podcasts. If I'm about to jump on a flight, I may download 4-5, which would put that at about 60k people. I just found an article saying 53 million people flew through SFO in 2016. If we distribute those evenly (unreasonable, but ballparks it), we get just under 145k passengers / day.
Obviously web pages and mp3s are much lighter than a typical podcast, so this isn't the best methodology. 15TB is a lot, for sure, but on the busiest travel day of the year, I can rationalize it.
- pstrateman 8y agoWebpages are pretty huge now, cnn.com is ~2MiB
- praet 8y agoEasily double that even, if don't use cache (4.4mb on a mobile device, while testing just now).
- Rapzid 8y agoI see extremely few people listening to anything that's not in-flight entertainment on flights. I bet it's mostly kids watching youtube videos.
- chrisseaton 8y agoThat’s funny - I almost never see anyone using inflight entertainment screens any more. People are always watching Netflix or listening to something instead. And I think my view is supported by airlines starting to remove those screens because they’re not being used.
- ghaff 8y agoDepends on the airline and the plane. If anything, I would have said there was a trend toward in-flight on-demand programming at no charge. It's increasingly delivered over WiFi but, in my experience, there's usually a screen as well. Admittedly, my experience is mostly limited to United (trending toward on-demand) and JetBlue (just free DirectTV AFAIK).
- chrisseaton 8y ago> toward in-flight on-demand programming at no charge Huh? I've never ever seen a charge for inflight entertainment, and I fly United all the time. Maybe different routes, then.
- ghaff 8y agoUnited charges for DirectTV https://www.united.com/CMS/en-US/travel/Pages/DIRECTV.aspx https://www.united.com/CMS/en-US/travel/Pages/DIRECTV.aspx On the planes where there's on-demand programming (on your tablet or the seatback), that's free. I mostly bring my own and have never paid but I assume they're phasing out the paid option.
- totalrobe 8y agoDepends on the airline and the route. On long haul flights on Emirates, who's known for the inflight system, everybody is using it.