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		ryanisinallofus on June 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It's All Software Latency and responsiveness are still a huge problem for all network-heavy apps. We have a professionally used iOS app that relies on server data (the magical cloud) and the number one user complaint is speed. Creating your client on iOS rather than in HTML/JS doesn't give you any magical "Latency and responsiveness" user experience unicorns.

glassx on June 15, 2011 [–]

Distributed software will work perfectly, provided it works under perfect conditions :)

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