Hello Chris,
Way off topic, I lived in Delft and taught at then Technische Hogeschule Delft (now University of Delft) many years ago.
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> 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 think you are on to something. Dense populations and a culture that regulates public utilities somewhat aggressively has led to lower prices for just about every level of cellular service throughout the EU relative to the US and Canada. Certainly compared to the Caribbean.
I have customers and colleagues asking about 5G on board their boats. The 5G rollout in the US is going to focus on the most dense urban areas. You don't need a degree in physics or EE to understand that the extraordinarily high frequencies necessary for broadband over RF don't propagate very well (limited distance) and green leaf attenuation will kill it in suburbia. Ignore that real widespread 5G even in urban areas is still a couple of years out it just isn't relevant to most of the US and certainly not to boaters with topographic and geographic constraints.
To circle back to my point, the people driving architecture and technology are removed from much of the real world. What gets rolled out at WWDC rarely has meaningful marginal value to users who are constrained by mobile bandwidth. It isn't just data caps. It is also sheer availability.
Netflix lets you download product when you have a good (or inexpensive) connection for use later. Amazon Prime does the same. Google Maps lets you download map tiles for when you don't have a data connection. My navigation and charting apps all do the same. Apple on the other hand continues to move portable functionality to the cloud and streaming. Quite aside from the security vulnerability that brings along it means we lose functionality without a data connection.
The iTunes decision just irritates the bejeepers out of me.
dave
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