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Don’t these airplane steaming services have a local copy of all the movies on some storage device inside the plane?

I wonder how crazy it would be to cache the iOS app… like maybe they run a caching transparent proxy on the plane… or some crazy relationship with a CDN that treats each plane as an edge node.

I dunno, it would probably be pretty be way to expensive to set up something like that to be worthwhile.

Apple content caching is built into MacOS. A Mac mini connected to the in-plane wifi would likely do the trick.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/what-is-content-cac...

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204675

You still need an initial internet connection before the caching though.

Southwest has a webapp, lol.

You're thinking like an engineer, not a manager. How does this factor into this year's bonus?

Increase of passenger engagement metrics on app delivered video services?

If more people download and run the app, then surely you can justify further investment in the product?