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Possible theory: Cost of bandwidth for downloading 4.2GB is > .99? Honestly, I have no idea, though.
by ptomato 16y ago
Possible theory: Cost of bandwidth for downloading 4.2GB is > .99? Honestly, I have no idea, though.
- astrodust 16y agoIt's not just the initial download, but the multi-GB updates that are shipped out every few months. I swear I've downloaded 100GB of XCode related material in the last two years.
- sstrudeau 16y agoAmazon S3 transfer costs are (worst case) $0.14/GB, or < $0.60 for 4.2GB. Apple certainly pays a lot less than that per bit.
- recoiledsnake 16y agoIs Apple a cash strapped startup or what? They easily get a lot of value via hardware sales from apps being made for their platforms to start worrying about bandwidth costs. Imagine if all OS X and iOS apps disappeared today? How many would still buy Apple hardware?