3G App Download Limits Doubled

Thursday, February 18, 2010

image35s Apple, certainly in anticipation of the first shipments of iPads to leave the factory, has increased the app size allowed to be downloaded over AT&T’s 3G network.

Previously capped at 10MB, Apple is now allowing apps to reach to 20MB before requiring either your home computer or a wifi network.

While this seems like small news to most people who download apps well below or above 10mb, the majority of apps are, surprisingly, purchased on the go. Developers uncertain of how to present a new app to the public on the move undoubtedly urged this first of many future increases to protect their revenue streams.

With the iPad promising functionality to all iPhone apps with a considerably larger screen, it’s no surprise that this ban needed lifting. Graphics, as you all know eat disk space. Downloads via 3G need to accomodate for the larger files of those upward scaled apps on the iPad.

For those waiting to play GTA:Chinatown Wars on their newly purchased Ipad, find a wifi hotspot. 140mb is huge and might slow down my SlingPlayer. No, not vice versa.

This is a story by the Apps Machine.