Today I realized (with @littlecalculist) that the web is AWESOME at dealing with low-disk-space situations (or just generally phones with little disk space).
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Replying to @wycats
To me it feels of a piece with the MP3’s (organize my folders) => iTunes (manage my local collection for me) => Spotify (manage local/remote for me) spectrum. As a platform that generally requires manual curation of local storage, apps feel line a major productivity regression.
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Replying to @littlecalculist
On the other hand, for people with a lot of "hard-offline" situations, the ability to "set up" for offline is important, and automatic management works less good for that situation. I think the web needs a "Keep/Install" mode for that situation.
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Replying to @wycats @littlecalculist
Also browser algorithms (but also app algorithms) are bad at negotiating the sometimes free/sometimes not internet access spectrum.
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Replying to @samth @littlecalculist
Generally speaking, stronger hints have really helped here. There's potential for abuse, but it's a lot easier to deal with than figuring out which cache headers indicate a real desire by end users. I think direct signals by end users would help too.
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Replying to @wycats @littlecalculist
Yeah, knowing which things I'm willing to use cellular data for is not something that's "hintable", I think.
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OS APIs don't give us high-fidelity understanding of metering situation. It's crazy complex.
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