Apple Is Blocking an App That Detects Net Neutrality Violations From the App Store

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Dave Burstein <daveb () dslprime com>
Date: Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: [IP] Apple Is Blocking an App That Detects Net Neutrality
Violations From the App Store
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>, <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>


Dave

The article is highly likely to be mistaken about throttling. The app
detects the speed coming from Netflix as 4 megabits. That corresponds to
Netflix's frequent comment that they send video at 2-5 megabits. There is
very little difference to the eye on even a large HD TV between 4 megabits
and 20 megabits.

The same is true of the other six examples. There is no reason for Netflix
and others to send data faster than necessary for excellent playback.

I (and you, and many on this list) have followed the networks closely.
Throttling this extremely would have been obvious to us.

We all make mistakes, even computer science professors.

Dave

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 1:07 PM, Dave Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
> Date: Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 11:10 AM
> Subject: Apple Is Blocking an App That Detects Net Neutrality Violations
> From the App Store
> To: Infowarrior List <infowarrior () attrition org>
> CC: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
>
>
>
> Apple Is Blocking an App That Detects Net Neutrality Violations From the
> App Store
>
> Apple told a university professor his app "has no direct benefits to the
> user."
>
>
> https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5vn9k/apple-blocking-net-neutrality-app-wehe
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