Matlab mobile doesn't execute startup.m at startup

Matlab mobile doesn't execute startup.m at startup. I have a 'startup.m" file in '/MATLAB Drive', but it doesn't get executed at startup, despite the claims in 'matlabrc'. I have to type 'startup" every time I use Matlab Mobile

[Paul McKenzie]

Apparently true of 'MATLAB Online" as well.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

The model of MATLAB Online is as-if it were continually running.

... Sort of.

The reality is that when you leave a MATLAB Online session, the session lingers for approximately 3 hours waiting for you to resume it. If you get back to it within the roughly 3 hours, then it continues on, workspace still exists; if you wait longer then the session is gone.

[Paul McKenzie]

That "answers" what MATLAB Mobile/Online DOES, but doesn't answer what it DOESN'T. If MATLAB knows the "session is gone", then starting MATLAB means it's a new session and executing startup.m at startup would seem to be the appropriate (promised?) thing to do, unless there's some downside I haven't considered.