How real is the need for speed?
How real is the need for speed? Om Malik asked the question earlier this week and has some fascinating facts which show that beyond a certain connection speed, there is no perceptible difference in the experience. Of course, with applications like streaming video - IPTV or Video-on-demand - this would change, especially if these are adopted more as packetized realtime streaming formats, not the "file-download" or "partial-file-download" and playback methods adopted by most vendors today.
Here's a link to Om's article: Need For Speed... How Real?As usual, Robert Scoble has his opinion on this as well and he points to TV over IP as the typical need: Om asks whether we really need the speed of broadband?On a side-note, I'm publishing this via Performancing for Firefox. Its a great start, has a long way to go however on features.