Following adding the functionality for new app installs earlier this year, the Google Play Store is once rolling out support...

Following adding the functionality for new app installs earlier this year, the Google Play Store is once rolling out support…

  • Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    41·
    3 months ago

    But what’s the point? Now you’re downloading 2 apps both at half the speed, instead of one at full speed. You still have the same bandwidth limits.

    • kernelle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      3 months ago

      It’ll improve the overall time. Pressing the download button doesn’t saturate your downlink immediately, it’s always a ramp up to max speed. Doing them in parallel saturates your connection much better.

      • Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        32·
        3 months ago

        Are you downloading from several mirrors at the same time? In that case it could be faster because the individual mirrors have a lower bandwidth than you have.

        Wonder if google would do something like this, but I would guess they download everything from the same server local to you, so I don’t think it should have any effect really.