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> And this is why Chrome's policy of updating automatically and completely silently is the right thing to do Not everyone is hooked up to unlimited broadband 2
by bsilvereagle 11y ago
> And this is why Chrome's policy of updating automatically and completely silently is the right thing to do
Not everyone is hooked up to unlimited broadband 24/7. To anyone who is frequently jumping between capped satellite & 3G/4G networks, silent auto-updating software not only unexpectedly slows down your already non-ideal connection, but also eats up lots of your capped data.
Lots of services tend to forget about the users who aren't hooked up to broadband 100% of the time.
- sliverstorm 11y agoThe proliferation of mobile devices and the convergence of mobile and traditional end user operating systems is solving this one. Android and Windows 8.1 both have the ability to mark an arbitrary WiFi network as metered, and many core services as well as third party apps will happily discriminate between unlimited WiFi and metered WiFi/cellular connections.