A Rant Against Splash Screens

Posted by Soulskill on Monday February 20, 2012 @07:10AM from the useless-colorful-rectangles dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This controversial post by Adobe's Kas Thomas asks if splash screens are just a sign of program bloat and callous disregard for users. It suggests that big programs should launch instantly (or appear to), perhaps by running against an instance in the cloud while the local instance finishes loading. Users of cell phones and tablets are accustomed to apps being instantly available. This is the new standard for performance, the author argues. Nothing short of it will do, any more."

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Re:Adobe complaining about bloat? by Squash · 2012-02-20 07:50 · Score: 5, Informative

My friend, you are mistaken. You will not find 1 Gbit much less 10 or 100Gbit unless the "right place" to live is a datacenter. Average internet speeds from July last year are still in the single-digit Megabit range. Local storage is several orders of magnitude faster than Internet for the foreseeable future.

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