On Sunday 14 February 2010 15:27:45 Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
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> And *IF* some application is interested in the such information,
> why not just using the filesystem ?

Because on flash-drives (Which are used in small devices and netbooks) you
don't want every single status update to be written to the filesystem.
And with minimal memory, I don't want to have a ram-disk gobbling up the
memory I have.

A simple message passed to apps which are listening is much better. It's
short-lived and only uses (minimal) resources when the message is broadcast.
After that, it doesn't linger, unless I am running an app that stores these
messages somewhere. (Probably a debugger)

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