For the upcoming unstructured sprint on iOS or perhaps later on, would it
make sense to explore reinstating the loading of the first section of an
article in one request, followed by loading of the others?
I've heard that the payload for the upcoming mobile app content service is
pretty dramatically reduced, although that's down the road for full
productionization.
I'm wondering if on this single payload for the new content service for
relatively larger articles the time to interact for the iOS user would
approach the incredibly fast time-to-interact that's present on Android as
a consequence of its two-step loading mechanism.
For some historical context, there was two-step loading on iOS, but
eventually things became crashy, so it was revised to be a one-step
action=mobileview call.
-Adam