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by mping 5098 days ago
It also mentions that "asynchronous UIs" (ie, optimistic save: server callbacks don't block, if something bad happens you'll solve it in a callback) need some sort of operational transformation (think google wave), but I think this only applies if you are writing real-time multi-user apps (chats, google docs, etherpad, etc) which is the overwhelming minority of mobile apps.