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I think the win here is for content providers more so than end users. Might not be a large overhead to the users, but I'm sure it saves Google tons of bandwidth
by panopticon 12y ago
I think the win here is for content providers more so than end users. Might not be a large overhead to the users, but I'm sure it saves Google tons of bandwidth over their hundreds of millions of users.
- FullyFunctional 12y agoThat's a very pessimistic view. Technology improvements in general benefits everyone, eventually. The invention of the plane didn't benefit the masses until much later when scaling brought the costs down. I for one welcome what this would do for me on high-latency high-loss connections (read: poor cell phone coverage). I just need Apple to buy into this ...
- panopticon 12y agoI had to do a double-take there. Pessimistic? I'm fully supportive of this! But realistically speaking, it's going to benefit content providers more than the average browser. I'm talking about magnitude of impact here. I did not that that is would not impact the average user, but the magnitude of the impact is nowhere near as much as the boon to Google. And your metaphor makes absolutely no sense since apparently large swaths of Chrome users already have this in their hands today!
- FullyFunctional 11y agoChrome on iOS doesn't support QUIC.