I got myself an iPad Pro for work last year (lots of diagram drawing) and my wife’s been looking covetously at it for the Pencil. But one thing I haven’t worked out with iOS on Giant iPad yet is being able to look at two tabs in a safari at once.
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(sorry, to clarify, I think the ipad pro is great - it's the web thread I'm all


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I have empirical data that the web is getting faster. Well,
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it's not outside the scope of my position that: * the web in general has gotten faster * web applications may have individually gotten slower and other web apps may have gotten faster * net new workflows enabled by the web (ie hard/impossible w/o web) can "feel" slow
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I mean, I'm assuming that it's not outside scope that alex has empirical data that the web as a whole is getting faster* but presumably there's individual sites that are still just doggone slow * I dunno, I'm imagining page load times for everyone using GA?
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The web is getting slower because no matter how much faster we make Chrome, developers abuse users with ever-larger piles of JS: https://httparchive.org/reports/state-of-javascript … ...and JS is the most expensive thing:https://infrequently.org/2017/10/can-you-afford-it-real-world-web-performance-budgets/ …
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I’d be interested to see the same chart for mobile app sizes. Anecdotally it seems like app sizes have ballooned too.
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Actually, I just found that chart of app size over time: https://medium.com/googleplaydev/shrinking-apks-growing-installs-5d3fcba23ce2 … Looks like it follows the same pattern as the Web has.
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..except app startup isn't dependent on wire size and JIT to nearly the same degree. We have applied modern software engineering to the ecosystem that can least afford it and users suffer as a result.
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