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Whoever gets it first will build apps for it first and have a head start.
by im3w1l 7y ago
Whoever gets it first will build apps for it first and have a head start.
- JohnFen 7y agoI don't understand this argument. First 5G is just a comms channel. What "apps" would be built for it? The only things I can think of that might be special are things that would require a large amount of bandwidth (that most people won't be getting anyway). You can easily write such apps without actually having 5G at your disposal. Second, even if the first point is off the mark, why does it matter who builds it first? Everyone else can still write apps for that system, and those apps would then immediately work on the others as they come online.
- sigstoat 7y ago> The only things I can think of that might be special are things that would require a large amount of bandwidth (that most people won't be getting anyway). You can easily write such apps without actually having 5G at your disposal. one could even imagine prototyping these things on existing high bandwidth networks. or porting all the great apps and such that demand high bandwidth over to the new environment. or maybe there'd be some papers or demos or conceptual whatevers about what these magical applications would be.