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Apple Boosts Over-the-Air App Store Download Limits to 50 MB
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Sure, but the way its written, it means that they work hard to keep it under the over the air limit because if they don't it will reduce the spontaneous purchases. Which is the exact opposite of the reality because it will increase the likelihood.
This is also Apples problem. They DO NOT SUPPORT modern compression algorithms like LZMA and LZMA2, which makes app downloads and OS updates approximately 30 percent larger than necessary. LZMA and LZMA2 are open source and provide a fast decompression speed (faster than BZIP2).
The limit is stupid. Same with the restrictions on iCloud backup and iOS updates over 3G I have only got a 3G connection at home, so I've to tether my iPhone to my MacBook to download apps over 50MB... Unlimited, all-you-can-eat data plans are becoming much more common these days and Apple should make it possible for users to disable their silly limits.
Actually here in the US unlimited plans are becoming much less common. The new big thing is tiered data plans. And those of us who still have unlimited plans risk being throttled for using too much on some carriers.
Silly, un-ergonomic
Considering the vast majority of us have capped data plans and that, unfortunately, seems to be where the industry is going, why not put a real-time data counter instead of a hard limit? With such a counter, one would easily see if the download is about to hit the cap.
Does jailbreak allows for that kind of notice?
Considering the vast majority of us have capped data plans and that, unfortunately, seems to be where the industry is going, why not put a real-time data counter instead of a hard limit? With such a counter, one would easily see if the download is about to hit the cap.
Does jailbreak allows for that kind of notice?
It was long overdue to boost the download limit but only pushing it to 50 Mb is ridiculous and extremely disappointing. Why sell a device with LTE support if one can't use it as one wants?
On top of that way more apps will pass that limit easily now soon when featuring higher Res art. Come on Apple, the new iPad looks great, why limit its use with such nonsense?
On top of that way more apps will pass that limit easily now soon when featuring higher Res art. Come on Apple, the new iPad looks great, why limit its use with such nonsense?
Finally.
And...
1)Apple should allow me to save/transfer my video clips (all sizes! Not just 5 mins worth) to iTunes/PC/Mac easily. I can't stand that I take a nice 5-10min video clip and there is no direct way to get it off the phone and onto my computer for future editing/video work. AND, the only way to get large (I think over 600MB) files off the iPhone is to go digging in the iTunes Backup. Lovely.
2)Apple should increase the email attachment size when sending videos. We don't all live in 1997, Apple. Gmail and Yahoo gladly take 25MB attachments. Please don't limit me/us to 5MB.
3)Apple lets me record wonderful 1080 clips but only posts to Youtube at 720. Awesome! Thanks so much, Apple! And thanks again for #1. Gee, I wonder why I record at 1080 to begin with.
And...
1)Apple should allow me to save/transfer my video clips (all sizes! Not just 5 mins worth) to iTunes/PC/Mac easily. I can't stand that I take a nice 5-10min video clip and there is no direct way to get it off the phone and onto my computer for future editing/video work. AND, the only way to get large (I think over 600MB) files off the iPhone is to go digging in the iTunes Backup. Lovely.
2)Apple should increase the email attachment size when sending videos. We don't all live in 1997, Apple. Gmail and Yahoo gladly take 25MB attachments. Please don't limit me/us to 5MB.
3)Apple lets me record wonderful 1080 clips but only posts to Youtube at 720. Awesome! Thanks so much, Apple! And thanks again for #1. Gee, I wonder why I record at 1080 to begin with.
Agree on there being no limit - you aren't being forced to download these bad boys.
Here in the UK the carrier 3 offers All you can eat data so again, no issues here.
Here in the UK the carrier 3 offers All you can eat data so again, no issues here.
So do millions of other people, and I think the point is that they deserve to enjoy their share of a speedy internet connection without a few hogs straining the network by streaming gigabyte-huge movies.
The original limit was in place because AT&T required it in the first contract with Apple.
Having a cap is stupid. Us people who have "all you can eat data" plans should be able to d/load what we want when we want. For once apples interference is unwanted, unnecessary, and stupid. pah.
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Iam with 3 like you. 15 quid a month and unlimited (as in the dictionary definition, not the phone carrier definition) data. I often use 30 gig a month sitting in the pub with my tethered MBA watching movies.
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Iam with 3 like you. 15 quid a month and unlimited (as in the dictionary definition, not the phone carrier definition) data. I often use 30 gig a month sitting in the pub with my tethered MBA watching movies.
That's cool. I'm confused a little about the iPhone 4S, though. When it was announced they said "it's what our competitors call 4G" yet it's still a 3G phone, right? Well what about this image, posted by Jack Barakat on Twitter?:
1) Use a PTP program like iPhoto, Image Capture, or Windows Image Transfer. You can transfer any sized video in the full resolution this way. I've gotten 14Gb full quality 1080p videos off of my 4S this way.
2) I've emailed 24Mb PDFs via iOS email attachment API before through Gmail. Works very well.
By marketing standards, the iPhone 4S is a 4G phone. And by technical standards, LTE is 3G. Either way, it's faster then the iPhone 4.
There are still countless corporate legacy mail servers that don't take anything above 5MB, but this is rapidly increasing to 10MB.
My private email provider allows me to use unlimited attachment sizes. But how useful it is when your email gets rejected on the other end?
Seems reasonable. As they initially refused to allow tethering. Data is data, right? Such restrictions have no reason to exist.
30GB being a VERY reasonable amount if that's your main Internet connection. Geez, I consider myself to be a light Internet user, yet don't go below 100GB, unless I'm out of town.
I agree. The limit is stupid. I have 3GB's of data. I should be allowed to use it however I want. If the network can't handle me downloading an app that's anything over 50 mb's, then it's probably the carrier's fault.
You can also use Dropbox to access your photos and videos and upload them (50GB limit for Dropbox). Then you can share via a emailed link and not have to worry killing someone's email box. I think you can do the same with Google but haven't played with it. Both are free.