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> One of the things that frustrates me about apps/web is that most people have no idea what individual apps/sites are “costing” them

It's not an issue with web apps but issue with outdated bandwith limiting.

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I've seen Olympics levels of trying to bend the truth, but pretending that reality is outdated so webdevs can continue pushing dozens of megabytes of JavaScript is a new one.

Wireless frequencies are a limited resources and bandwidth will always be metered, more so if lazy devs ignore efficiency.

That's not true at all, as many people pointed out in this thread there's a lot of bandwidth even with 3g connections however it is being artificially limited as a revenue stream.

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