Play Store can now download multiple Android app updates at the same time
Play Store can now download multiple Android app updates at the same time
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...
What a time to be alive!
Something apple had before? Well that's a first! Congrats to apple for doing something right.
Tbh, I only ever noticed that the Play Store didn't do parallel downloads like once a year when switching phones. I forgot about it the rest of the time lol
i thought this kind of technology was still decades away
Wow. This took forever. But thanks I guess.
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.
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.
Not my experience when using parallel downloads in Arch Linux. Pacman becomes waaaay faster.
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.
It couldn't download while an app is installing. So while an already downloaded app was installing, you had nothing downloading until it finishes installing.