Appleinfo: Re: [apple-iphone] Re: WWDC Keynote

mercredi 5 juin 2019

Re: [apple-iphone] Re: WWDC Keynote

[I'm going off-topic]

I can see it your way, Dave.

About a day ago (time zones...), the point of mobile connections had some people from Canada complain about their subscription prices. Yes, one'd definitely have the expenses capped, and accept limited plans as a consequence.

I mentioned mine for comparison, not to enrage them.

I live in the Netherlands, a comparatively densely populated and prosperous part of Europe (yet with its rural and water-rich areas). The cost of having LTE infrastructure must be acceptable in the number of antennas on the one hand and the number of customers on the other.

But those costs must be much higher in Canada (at least outside the South) and in rural USA, with far less people to pay for them.

And then I read this article about these rural networks: the gear would be far more expensive, if not provided by Huawei...

(Note: I was surprized to learn, that many Dutch users have quite limited plans. Me, I have four "unlimited" mobile plans. Currently, my other three devices with active SIM-cards turn to the wifi of my mifi, needlessly competing with my other devices at home.)

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Chris

reacting to this not-deleted text:

On 5 Jun 2019, 14:44 +0200, dskolnick@gmail.com [apple-iphone] <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com>, wrote:

... I fully understand that Apple thinks they are keeping up with the trend toward cloud storage and streaming services. I believe they are doing a poor job of it. Further, the technical community in places like Cupertino, Mountain View, and Redmond have lost their grip on any connection to people who don't have broadband connections and big screens and company-paid phone accounts with unlimited data. What about those of us who sometimes (or often, or always) have skinny pipes to the Internet. Netflix and Amazon are again ahead of Apple by seeing that streaming services don't obviate the need to download media in its entirety. Not everyone may be hundreds of miles offshore days from Internet but many people fly. Many people live in rural areas. Many people have data caps on their cellular plans. Apple doesn't get that.

Apple would be well served to send their software team leads and certainly their testing people to somewhere like Coinjock NC for a couple of months. They'd probably double the population.

dave

Annapolis MD