Following adding the functionality for new app installs earlier this year, the Google Play Store is once rolling out support…

  • @[email protected]
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    16 days ago

    Fucking finally, it’s so stupid having to wait them download 1-by-1

    Hope Aurora can use the parallel downloads

    • dhhyfddehhfyy4673
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      2016 days ago

      Aurora did. Stopped working at some point this year for some reason; I was upset when I noticed the change :/

      • @[email protected]
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        Maybe throttled unless it passes some kind of check for being “authentic” or something. Feels like that’s the general pattern with Google now.

        Hell, maybe it was related to implementing this feature. You can get parallel downloads from the store now because they changed how downloads are queued or something.

    • @[email protected]
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      616 days ago

      I haven’t noticed that behavior in years. Usually I wake up in the morning, see the “new update” notification, check if there’s anything I don’t want updated, or else click “update all” and then go to the bathroom. By the time I’m back, everything is done and delivered.

  • Lucy :3
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    2916 days ago

    Something apple had before? Well that’s a first! Congrats to apple for doing something right.

  • @cm0002
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    2516 days ago

    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

  • @affiliate
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    2516 days ago

    i thought this kind of technology was still decades away

  • @atrielienz
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    615 days ago

    Wow. This took forever. But thanks I guess.

  • Ghoelian
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    216 days ago

    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.

    • @kernelle
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      1916 days ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      1516 days ago

      Not my experience when using parallel downloads in Arch Linux. Pacman becomes waaaay faster.

      • Ghoelian
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        316 days ago

        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.

    • @[email protected]
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      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.