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January 09, 2012
Siri Seems to Encourage Bandwidth Consumption
It looks as if Apple's voice recognition software, Siri, is causing people to use data much more heavily on their iPhones. In fact, some recent iPhone 4S users studies by Arieso shows that users have nearly doubled their data consumption on the iPhone 4 and use up to three times as much data as iPhone 3G users, Arieso says.
And though one might dispute what it actually means, Arieso also finds that one percent of all mobile data users now consume 50 percent of all downstream capacity. In other words, extremely-heavy users now have become even heavier users of mobile data capacity.
Those changes in behavior illustrate the reasons there will never be “enough bandwidth.” As developers and users find they have more processing power, memory and bandwidth, new input and output methods and types of devices, developers create new apps and features that use those capabilities, and as Arieso has found, people respond... Read More
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