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

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    2 months 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.

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      2 months 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.

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        2 months 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.

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      2 months ago

      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.