Bug In Fire TV Screensaver Tears Through 250 GB Data Cap

jfruh (300774) writes Tech writer Tyler Hayes had never come close to hitting the 250 GB monthly bandwidth cap imposed by Cox Cable — until suddenly he was blowing right through it, eating up almost 80 GB a day. Using the Mac network utility little snitch, he eventually tracked down the culprit: a screensaver on his new Kindle Fire TV. A bug in the mosaic screensaver caused downloaded images to remain uncached.

Comments

Similar bug in iOS

[CastrTroy]

I have experienced a similar bug in my iOS devices. Everytime they do a small update to iOS, you're required to redownload the entire operating system, separately for each device you own. We have an iPad and 3 iPod touches (kids...) in the house, and every time Apple issues an Update to iOS we go through quite a lot of extra bandwidth. It's also annoying that we have to clear off 4GB on the device to install the update, as they only come with 12 GB of useable space to begin with.

I know that this isn't really a bug, but just goes to show you how little most device and app designers think like regular people. It's as if the people testing the devices just use the internet in the office and don't think about the consequences of using too much data, and that they only use the 64 GB versions of the devices where it's much less of a problem to clear off the required space for upgrades.