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by drdexebtjl 26 days ago
Also bottlenecked when it comes to background operations.

Trusting the server, all the app in your phone has to do in the sliver of CPU time the OS gives it in the background is send it off to the server, where it can do compute-intensive things like transcoding video.

If you don’t trust the server, you’ll probably have to do these things while your app is in the foreground.