When bittorrent was released, I saw the technological aspects as groundbreaking, thinking it would be repurposed for much more than ISO downloads and mass media distribution. How did the technology not become a more popular way of distributing via crowdsourcing large community datasets, such as openstreetmaps, or something like distribution of Android rom updates, when the costs of distribution are so expensive?
Phones and tablets? They’ve displaced computers for a fair few people, and it’s hard to consistently run a P2P client on those devices (And that’s ignoring metered connection costs)