Comment by Firmwarrior
3 years ago
ah, I meant use cases that were enabled by/tied to the bloat
I guess you could say that streaming content is a core part of the horrible software bloat we've been suffering under. Instead of being allowed to just download a good quality copy of anything, we have to 'stream' low quality DRM-laden copies again and again
Google Maps would work a lot better as a standalone app than embedded in a web browser, but I guess that and a lot of other apps are delivered via browser nowadays
Its an entire wasteful paradigm of pull everything, cache nothing. It just relies on the assumption that you'd always have perfectly reliable data; I can't get a good wifi or LTE signal in certain parts of my home on the other hand so I guess I am screwed.