On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Iain Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FTA: > "In fact, more than most: the vast majority. Something like just one > twentieth of one percent have accessed a BBC iPlayer programme via a > hack." > > The whole point about the recent update is that the server really > can't tell if the client is an iPhone or not, so where does that stat > come from?
Perhaps they are tracking download speeds and guessing from that? Will the mp4 be pulled at a much faster rate by curl/wget than it would have been by an iphone that downloads it incrementally for realtime viewing? -- Ian Partridge City of Southampton Orchestra - http://www.csorchestra.org Next concert 5th April - Elgar: Enigma Variations - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
