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Can't understand why this comment is so far down on the page. Apple Music has 98M users [1]. Let's say conservatively users listen to one song per day and updat
by glacials 5y ago
Can't understand why this comment is so far down on the page. Apple Music has 98M users [1]. Let's say conservatively users listen to one song per day and update metadata on one song per month. That's 30 * 0.5 MB * 98M ~= 1 petabyte extra per month sent over the wire to save ~4 MB * 98M ~= 392 terabytes per month from being written to disk.
Those 0.5 MB presumably also need to be written to disk, making this a trading away of 392 TB in disk writes in exchange for 17 PB over the wire + 17 PB in disk writes? I'm sure this is overly simple and overlooks a lot of technical details, but I can't see how this can be worth it.
[1]: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-music-statistics/ https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-music-statistics/