# Why Mobile Apps Need to Handle Unreliable Connectivity

DevFeed: [Why Mobile Apps Need to Handle Unreliable Connectivity](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/no-connection-big-problem-touchlab-38073.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://touchlab.co/2013-07-no-connection-big-problem>)

Published: 2013-07-10T14:58:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Touchlab | Enterprise Mobile Innovation & Development](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/touchlab-enterprise-mobile-innovation-development.md>)

Topics: [Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>), [Amazon EC2](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-ec2.md>)

Tags: [apps](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apps.md>), [connectivity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/connectivity.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [ec2](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ec2.md>), [mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile.md>), [networks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networks.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [thoughts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/thoughts.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that mobile and WiFi connections are unreliable in everyday situations, yet many apps are built as if connectivity were guaranteed. It highlights how outages, weak signals, server failures, storage limits, and cloud infrastructure problems can disrupt applications, and calls attention to the need for development teams to take offline connectivity seriously.

## Source excerpt

Despite the fact that our mobile and WiFi connections are anything but a sure thing, we keep building apps that assume they are.