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Steve (Apple) did... in Akamai. http://www.akamai.com/html/about/press/releases/1999/press_081899c.html http://www.akamai.com/html/about/press/releases/1999/pr

by davidu 16y ago

Steve (Apple) did... in Akamai. http://www.akamai.com/html/about/press/releases/1999/press_081899c.html http://www.akamai.com/html/about/press/releases/1999/press_0... It was at one point worth about 2 billion dollars, but I'm guessing it all got washed out after the dot-com bust because word of it was never mentioned again. :-) Anyways, they aren't doing this because of CDN costs, it's negligible -- they are Akamai's largest customer and are also building their own network as well.

rbanffy 16y ago
Makes sense. Perhaps that's why OSX is the only modern Unix (sorry AIX, HP-UX) that has no package management system... ;-) I am quite sure the number of Mac users who download Xcode is negligible compared to the number of Mac users who download movies from that very same CDN. And the size of Xcode is comparable to HD movies.