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App Developers: Are You Ready for HTML5 and Metered Data?

  • Thursday, October 14, 2010

If HTML5 apps are the future, the trend of apps eating up more data than the mobile browser could reverse.

The handset browser's reign as the largest data consumer on the wireless web looks to be ending, with mobile Internet traffic now evenly split between browsers and apps. This continued rise of apps, meanwhile, means more and more carriers will soon move towards metered data plans. HTML5 could help developers in offering more efficient, less data-hungry apps to consumers.

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