I’m no computer geek at all, but isn’t software development paralleling the work of bandwidth improvements?
That is to say, Flash, etc. - stuff that doesn’t require as much bandwidth to transmit as did video/audio of ten years ago?
This question is posed to the geek types here.
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HTML video is more efficient than flash.
Apple has refused to put flash software on their iOs devices primarily because of the battery life hit.