Why µTorrent's future might not be that bloated after all
12/12 2006 | 01:29 PM
Posted by: Janko Roettgers
Funny things happen if you accidentally buy the wrong package of marinated beef. You end up with a mild, yet exhausting and time consuming form of food poisoning, spend a few days inbetween bed and bathroom and start dreaming crazy stuff. Like Nazis riding on dinosaurs, and Bittorrent taking over the world. Oh wait, the latter actually happend.
Bittorent bought µTorrent, and many people apparently aren't too happy about it. Some fear that Bittorrent will end up incorporating the upcoming download store into the µTorrent client, making it memory-hungry and bloated in the process.
Bram Cohen has announced his company is monstly inteterested in µTorrent because of it's slim code and the chance to embed it into devices other than the traditional PC. It seems reasonable to assume that µTorrent and it's current user base will also be used to get the Bittorrent store going. Fortunately, that doesn't have to mean it will become bloated at all.
One interesting aspect of µTorrent is it's Web UI. Users of this extension can control their µTorrent installation from a remote PC. However, the Web UI can alsobe used to access most relevant functions of µTorrent on the same PC the client is installed.
Bittorrent might want to think about making use of this feature for their online store. That way poeple can access the store through their regular web browser of choice while at the same time starting and monitoring downloads within that very same bowser window. µTorrent could be the thin client that is handling the work in the background.
Think of it as something like the original Audiogalaxy plus some Ajax and Bittorrent. Anyone who had the chance to try Audiogalaxy will surely remember that it's P2P client was anything but bloated.
Bittorent bought µTorrent, and many people apparently aren't too happy about it. Some fear that Bittorrent will end up incorporating the upcoming download store into the µTorrent client, making it memory-hungry and bloated in the process.
Bram Cohen has announced his company is monstly inteterested in µTorrent because of it's slim code and the chance to embed it into devices other than the traditional PC. It seems reasonable to assume that µTorrent and it's current user base will also be used to get the Bittorrent store going. Fortunately, that doesn't have to mean it will become bloated at all.
One interesting aspect of µTorrent is it's Web UI. Users of this extension can control their µTorrent installation from a remote PC. However, the Web UI can alsobe used to access most relevant functions of µTorrent on the same PC the client is installed.
Bittorrent might want to think about making use of this feature for their online store. That way poeple can access the store through their regular web browser of choice while at the same time starting and monitoring downloads within that very same bowser window. µTorrent could be the thin client that is handling the work in the background.
Think of it as something like the original Audiogalaxy plus some Ajax and Bittorrent. Anyone who had the chance to try Audiogalaxy will surely remember that it's P2P client was anything but bloated.
