Comment on Kicksend (YC S11) iPhone app - send up to 30 full-quality images at once over 3GComments−unseen14yEither they created more bandwidth where there is none or this is really an announcement how their app can now do uploads in parallel. Woohoo! You finished the tutorial level, you may continue.−indiecore14yMake the app zip and unzip the pictures automagically, tell people that it'll use less bandwidth than email?−elithrar14y> Make the app zip and unzip the pictures automagically, tell people that it'll use less bandwidth than email?It's worth stating that zipping/gzipping JPEG's (the most common camera phone file format) nets almost no benefit as JPEG's are already compressed.
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Either they created more bandwidth where there is none or this is really an announcement how their app can now do uploads in parallel. Woohoo! You finished the tutorial level, you may continue.
Make the app zip and unzip the pictures automagically, tell people that it'll use less bandwidth than email?
> Make the app zip and unzip the pictures automagically, tell people that it'll use less bandwidth than email?
It's worth stating that zipping/gzipping JPEG's (the most common camera phone file format) nets almost no benefit as JPEG's are already compressed.