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I'm curious to know whether there's a difference if you break it down into mobile vs desktop users.


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I think there’s a difference between desktop and mobile. Maybe you’re talking about mobile here?

Mobile or desktop?

Mobile or desktop?

Mobile or desktop?

Mobile or desktop?

If you trust StatCounter's stats, mobile is gaining on desktops, but just barely: http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_vs_desktop-ww-monthly-2010...

(Also according to StatCounter, on the desktop, Windows has a 92% share. Make of that what you will.)


Because mobile and desktop are different markets

On mobile or on your desktop? I think we need to make a distinction here.

The major benefits would come from mitigating the (generally) higher latencies and lower bandwidth of mobile. What gains you'd get on desktop would be countered by the extra hop traffic would require. Overall I doubt desktop users would get much benefit from this feature.

Since "desktop" as a platform includes laptops, which have pretty similar connectivity issues as mobile devices, that's really not true.

I just use desktop on mobile.

On desktop or mobile?

desktop or mobile rendering?

That's a good point which I hadn't thought about.

It's probably less true for Android, but still more than for desktop.


can i just ask why you want this on desktop so badly vs just continuing on your mobile? its not like your phone ceases to exist when you are working on your desktop? just trying to better understand the psyche of users like yourself.

Never really replaced the desktop, but it is running on way more mobile devices than anything else.

These days we're actually lucky to get any desktop experience at all. Look at e.g. Instagram Threads. The response to "desktop is hard" and "most users use mobile" is often now "only weirdos use desktop, don't even bother".

Desktop users.

Desktop in this case, though I wouldn't complain about adding more mobile browser games to my phone.
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