Comments on: iPhone data pokey? Blame the Crackberry users! http://www.geardiary.com/2009/07/23/iphone-data-pokey-blame-the-crackberry-users/ Everyone can understand technology; sometimes it just takes a little translating. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael Andersonhttp://www.geardiary.com/2009/07/23/iphone-data-pokey-blame-the-crackberry-users/#comment-47315 Michael Anderson Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:31:55 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=39308#comment-47315 All of these micro-transactions - mobile email, twittering, and so on, might have a small data impact, but as jkj1962 says, the transaction impact is huge ... and should have been pretty obvious. All of these micro-transactions – mobile email, twittering, and so on, might have a small data impact, but as jkj1962 says, the transaction impact is huge … and should have been pretty obvious.

]]> By: jkj1962http://www.geardiary.com/2009/07/23/iphone-data-pokey-blame-the-crackberry-users/#comment-47311 jkj1962 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:58:19 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=39308#comment-47311 "Apparently the constant polling of the servers by email (and location based programs, always on web programs, etc) is causing something akin to death by 1,000 papercuts." That report was from the Bell Labs "Department of the Obvious". All of this "always on" stuff is choking the networks, and I can't believe no one figured that was going to happen. The Pre is only going to make it worse. “Apparently the constant polling of the servers by email (and location based programs, always on web programs, etc) is causing something akin to death by 1,000 papercuts.”

That report was from the Bell Labs “Department of the Obvious”. All of this “always on” stuff is choking the networks, and I can’t believe no one figured that was going to happen. The Pre is only going to make it worse.

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