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Is bandwidth really the limiting factor for updating desktop applications? If you had asked me I would have guessed the limitation would be QA time. Surely the
by positr0n 12y ago
Is bandwidth really the limiting factor for updating desktop applications?
If you had asked me I would have guessed the limitation would be QA time. Surely they need to do some manual QA before pushing a release to prod, and surely that is more expensive than bandwidth.
That being said, it's a really cool project and I'm not at all arguing it shouldn't exist because it does improve the user's experience.
- whacker 12y agoI think the argument is that users are more likely to be happy with software updating itself if the updates are un-noticeably tiny.
- plorkyeran 12y agoThe end-user's bandwidth is the thing they're trying to save, not Google's.
- abraham 12y agoChrome has Chromium, canary, dev, and beta channels all of which act as a stage of manual QA.