Re: [w3c/ServiceWorker] Soft Update seems way to aggressive (#1250)

> What's the downside to the current model?

Forcing unnecessary bandwidth and radio power usage in a mechanism that is supposed to enable zero-bandwidth and zero-radio-power usage apps.

Consider apps in an app store. I don't know how other app stores work, but on iOS the system will only look for updates opportunistically - when there's high battery or the device is plugged in, when on WiFi - and even then it looks "every once and while" and not *literally every time you launch the app or navigate around the app's main view*

If the app wants to fire up the radios and use their user's metered bandwidth itself, that's fine. The system blames apps for data and power usage in a user-visible manner for this reason.

But forcing it on all apps?

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