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The Kindle Fire is wifi-only, and Silk is only on the Kindle Fire. They are probably optimizing battery and latency. Bandwidth is important but not as important
by SteveJS 15y ago
The Kindle Fire is wifi-only, and Silk is only on the Kindle Fire. They are probably optimizing battery and latency. Bandwidth is important but not as important as if they had to deal with 3g.
- taylorbuley 15y agoThat's an interesting point. Most WiFI APs are pretty snappy. Optimizing EDGE connections and weak cellular signals are one thing, but how much faster can it really be on my a 10GPS down connection?
- jonknee 15y agoA ton. When you request a site in Silk it's very probable Amazon already knows about all the dependencies and already has them cached locally. So you make a request for a site (in the existing SPDY connection) and in return get everything needed to display it at once. In a pre-computed format so the relatively slow mobile CPU doesn't have to spend cycles parsing it into something readable. Just the CPU thing makes a big difference. There's a noticeable timing lag between loading a page on my iPad vs on my computer. Same wireless network so it's not the connection slowing things down.
- ZeroGravitas 15y agoThe main reason I'd be happy getting a Wi-Fi tablet is that 3G smartphone based hotspots are becoming ubiquitous. I'd imagine they'll be tuning for that usage as well as couch surfing on home broadband, possibly even intelligently moving more work to the cloud when it detects a slower connection.