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It's not servers. It's who will have the best submarine cables. A game in which Apple is not participating btw. Not even with an Elon style moon, err, low earth
by okket 7y ago
It's not servers. It's who will have the best submarine cables. A game in which Apple is not participating btw. Not even with an Elon style moon, err, low earth orbit shot.
https://blog.apnic.net/2019/04/03/the-future-of-undersea-internet-cables-are-big-tech-companies-forming-a-cartel/ https://blog.apnic.net/2019/04/03/the-future-of-undersea-int...
- threeseed 7y agoApple has no need for undersea cables. It doesn't matter if iCloud is slow or not since most of the interactions with it are in the background. And all of it's content e.g. App Store or Apple Music are cached by CDNs which are hosted in pretty much every country.
- dgemm 7y agoA bit simplistic, no? There is more than one important factor.
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