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They spend a lot of money trying to offer competitive features on their flights - like maybe watching streaming videos on the plane enabled by the app. To the
by digikata 5y ago
They spend a lot of money trying to offer competitive features on their flights - like maybe watching streaming videos on the plane enabled by the app. To the extent that passengers can't finish a 439MB download of the app just before they board, the app size wastes investments in services of the airline.
- commandlinefan 5y agoYou're thinking like an engineer, not a manager. How does this factor into this year's bonus?
- digikata 5y agoIncrease of passenger engagement metrics on app delivered video services?
- snovv_crash 5y agoIf more people download and run the app, then surely you can justify further investment in the product?
- bitwize 5y agoSouthwest has a webapp, lol.
- spookthesunset 5y agoDon’t these airplane steaming services have a local copy of all the movies on some storage device inside the plane? I wonder how crazy it would be to cache the iOS app… like maybe they run a caching transparent proxy on the plane… or some crazy relationship with a CDN that treats each plane as an edge node. I dunno, it would probably be pretty be way to expensive to set up something like that to be worthwhile.
- Kon-Peki 5y agoApple content caching is built into MacOS. A Mac mini connected to the in-plane wifi would likely do the trick. https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/what-is-content-caching-on-mac-mchl9388ba1b/mac https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/what-is-content-cac... https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204675 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204675
- ksec 5y agoYou still need an initial internet connection before the caching though.
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