From where I live despite we have fiber broadband connection but in practice it 
is slow like hell when connecting to anything that is not on the same carrier, 
and 4G traffic is extremely expensive (US$10 for 1GB of traffic.)

Since I don’t write games, I try my best to make apps as tiny as possible - my 
usual limit is 5MB packaged size.

> On Jun 16, 2015, at 14:37, Michael David Crawford <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Where I live I can only get dialup; to download anything these days I
> have to go to a wifi spot.
> 
> Just now I'm downloading the 1 GB Epson Printer Drivers from Apple's
> downloads page; despite being the only customer in the place, Firefox
> estimates the download will require 18 hours.
> 
> I have a Facebook friend who lives in West Africa.  He has decent
> connectivity but only from a cybercafe.  He has no way to save his own
> documents because no one sells flash drives there.
> 
> There are many places in the world where one can get online with a
> smartphone but again have no way to save any documents they download.
> 
> When I was the Product Development Manager for Working Software I kept
> twelve people employed despite that I only had a 40 MB hard drive.
> 
> Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer
> [email protected]
> http://www.warplife.com/mdc/
> 
>   Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan
> Area.
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