I think they must be deliberately using lower speed distribution to prioritize bandwidth to their user-centric services. It should be seen as an uncompetitive practice in breach of US Antitrust Laws, considering to this day they have not provided an explanation, and I have noticed this problem for over 5 years now. Access to their APIs for developers to create their own apps is essentially being used as a way to corner the market and eliminate competition from those programmers to develop for other platforms. If the developers are stuck on Apple's pages for 5 more minutes per day when they need to be there, they will have less time to provide similar apps on other platforms.