Given the global scale of the Marketplace, some update latency is to be expected. There is, no doubt, a central master database of applications but you can bet that the database is replicated out to dozens of local copies around the globe. This replication process is usually completely decoupled from any application updates you might make, which means your app gets pushed out in a few minutes or a few hours, depending on where you happen to be in the schedule.
So it's not caching in the sense of getting a web page to load faster. It's management of Wide Area Network links to optimize their use. The goal is to use the lowest speed links you can get away with, keep them "full" of data 24/7, and still have pretty fast download speeds from the local copies of the data. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
