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That's pretty cool. This could work in mobile but Apple's review process kills it there and the monitoring part is hard. App stores, though, make this possible. I wish Apple would allow a post-review oath for trusted developers, those who have established a track record of successful releases.

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If a mobile app wanted to be updated every single week, I would get annoyed at some point. The point is that web applications can do this in a seamless manner.

There's no technical reason why that should be so. Google Chrome doesn't make you click a button to update it, or even tell you that it has updated. It just does it.

Mobile is different because people have to pay for bandwidth

Not a problem with Google's binary delta based updater.

http://blog.chromium.org/2009/07/smaller-is-faster-and-safer...

Unless you live in Canada.

one of the many reasons i prefer android. this could work in the android model

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