MBOX-Line: From brong at fastmail.fm  Sat Mar 24 15:23:21 2012
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From: Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:48 2018
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On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 09:40:46PM +0000, Dave Cridland wrote:
> On Sat Mar 24 21:32:43 2012, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> >Can client developers really do it much better? I guess desktop
> >vs. mobile developers can do things differently if they wanted,
> >but is it any more realistic for them than for server developers?
> >
> >
> Yes.
> 
> Mobile developers tend to know they're on a mobile.

Your theory fails to account for cheap shitty NAT devices which think
the entire world is HTTP and silently drop the connection after a
couple of minutes, without even so much as an RST, leaving innocent
desktop clients with a broken connection and no indication to the user
that they are no longer getting updates.

Bron.

