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The extra bandwidth cost seems like it would be covered in the severely discounted OS price.
by xbryanx 15y ago
The extra bandwidth cost seems like it would be covered in the severely discounted OS price.
- statictype 15y agoCost of the bandwidth is one issue. The amount of time it takes to download is another. I have a 4mbps connection but power cuts and fluctuations makes it difficult to do a 4gb download from Apple. Every upgrade of Xcode is a horror. The download stalls in the middle and then fails to re-continue because the session timed out. I have to end up doing some gymnastics by exporting cookies from the browser to a file and then coaxing wget to use that. I hope they've got a decent pause/resume system on the Mac App Store downloads.