There is a difference between being "deprioritized" and "throttled". Throttling involves placing a hard limit on the speed of data transmission. Deprioritzation means if traffic is heavy in your location, other people who haven't reached the threshold will get more bandwidth allocated to them than you do.
For cellular data caps are about network congestion. For terrestrial Internet, congestion can be solved if the provider is willing to throw more money at it. But for cellular, the options for building more capacity for the last mile is building more towers and making each tower less powerful so it serves a smaller area.
There are two problems with that. It takes years sometimes for municipalities and neighborhoods to approve a tower being built and even if you do have more towers, if you are in a heavily populated area. You still can only have one tower supporting too many people.
There is a maximum amount of data that can be transferred over a certain amount of bandwidth and not all frequencies are suitable for cell data communications.
When Steve was alive Apple shipped new products when Steve thought they were ready, which was a pretty high quality bar.
The first iPhone really wasn't "ready" compared to phones at the time -- no apps, no gps, no 3G, no video camera, couldn't activate without iTune, etc. The iPhone barely worked at the unveiling according to people who worked at Apple at the time. If you did things in the wrong order it crashed.
Not to mention their three or four attempts at cloud services during his reign or Siri that was unveiled right before his death. I'm sure he was involved with it's released schedule.
That is googles right, they are a for profit company, and does anyone realistically expect them to support a phone forever, especially when they've released 3 different phones since then.
IOS 9 Released September 2015 supports the iPhone 4s (introduced 2011). iOS 9 supports the 4s,5 (and 5C), 6 and 6s,
With many high end phones it doesn't matter - they support both GSM and CDMA. Lower end phones that you don't buy from the carrier usually only support GSM. Even with the iPhone 5s there are two separate models sold in the U.S. - one that is GSM only and one that is GSM/CDMA.
Right now I'm paying $200 with T-mobile for 5 lines all with unlimited data, 14Gb of tethering per line, and you unlimited tethering of video with Binge On active. I can turn off Binge On for our phones.
With the new plans, tethering is more expensive and none is included, you can't turn off Binge On, and it doesn't look like you have unlimited video tethering.
Limited bandwidth data for video is usually okay on the phone but Sling doesn't work reliably with it.
That's not true. They have truly unlimited plans that don't throttle but do prioritize data after 26Gb. I have never noticed slower speeds. Their other plans do throttle after you reach your high speed data allotment.
Even if you do have good coverage, I would never suggest a CDMA carrier over a GSM carrier. You can easily get any phone from anywhere and it will work with GSM carriers.
no, customers do not "demand" locked phones.. they DO however, demand the gimmicky handset giveaways and other promotions, and *that* is what "demands" a locked phone to keep the phone on carrier for the duration of whatever contract requirement the carriers throw at it..
Verizon doesn't lock most of their phones and the ones that they do lock, they will unlock for you without too much of a hassle.
what you SHOULD be saying is that hardware and service should be separated.
Most carriers are allowing customers to have a 0% financing for their phones that are separate from the service. You can pay off the phone and move to another service or you can bring a compatible phone to their service.
hardware should cost what hardware costs.. a couple hundred usd, at minimum, for all but the cheapest devices.. unlocked and not carrier specific. a cdma should work on either cdma provider, a gsm should work on any gsm for voice and any carrier for data,
Most phones support LTE and work with GSM or CDMA. A GSM only LTE phone won't work with a CDMA carrier if it can't get an LTE signal. Then you have an issue with some phones don't support all of the LTE bands.
But CDMA sucks and only used by a few carriers worldwide.
services should cost what service costs... which is, a hell of a lot less than it does now due to it currently subsidizing hardware promos,
Phone carriers in the U.S. have moved away from subsidized plans toward service + (optional) finance plans. You can pay for the phone up front and just pay for service.
"smart phone" mandatory surcharges and data plans HAVE TO GO. ever hear of wifi-only data? no? it's entirely feasible, preferred even by many.. but carriers don't want you to have a smart phone that only does wifi data.
Plans do come with limited data but it's only $15/month. If you spend most of your time on wifi. There are plenty of free/low cost VOIP apps that include a phone number.
and the software ON the hardware needs to be supported and updated with security and bug fixes for the life of the hardware.. at least 7-10 years or more.. so you can jump off the upgrade train, keep a good device long-term, and do the environment a favor.
I never thought I would be saying this but the Microsoft Store -- both online and the brick stores -- is a great shopping experience. They sell computers from a number of brands without crapware and they are the same prices if not cheaper than the crapware version.
I bought a Dell 2-n-1 Inspiron from there recently. I never thought I would be able to buy a clean Dell consumer computer.
The usual argument is that with DRM you don't own the media. Well when I buy a song from iTunes it doesn't have DRM -- I own the media. When I pay for a subscription service. I pay for it knowing in advance that when I stop subscribing. I no longer have the right to listen to it.
Did you notice how many of those vulnerabilities have already been patched? The latest version of iOS 9.3.3 is compatible with every iOS device sold since September 2011 and was available for every iPhone regardless of carrier the day it was released.
Have you ever heard Apple make the excuse that it's the fault of a third party driver when there is a security issue with iOS? I doubt that Apple would accept any binary only drivers from someone who produces its chips.
So your sample covers the iPhone buying set taking all the variables into account in the representative proportions? Have you taken into consideration all of the variables in your sample dara? Have you studied the different markets where Apple sells iPhones to know what proportions of their phones are sold in which geographic area?
If they upgrade would be dependent on all those factors. So unless you both have a large enough sample of the given population and that sample is proportional your sample size of "dozens" means nothing.
It's completely relevant. How often someone buys a new phone would be a function of whether a certain culture sees a phone as a fashion accessory, whether they have have to pay for the phone up front, the relativel cost of the phone compared to their income, whether the carrier has an installment plan or lease plan. Used phones sell better in some countries than others etc.
I'm claiming no such thing. I'm saying that Apple sells the iPhone in 100+ countries and have 200+ carriers. Does your sample size represent all of those countries and carriers? Different carrier have different marketing techniques. Is your sample size representative of the different ways that carriers sell phones and does your sample size have the same ratio? Some carriers have a lease program that would encourage yearly upgrades. Other carriers make you pay the full price up front. Any of your contacts in foreign countries that speak fluent English are statistically more likely to be better educated.
It's "embarrassing" that you think your "dozens of contacts" would pass muster as a longitudinal cross section of all iPhone users. Your "high degree of certainty" at being right puts you in the company of young-earth creationists and anti-vaxxers.
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There is a difference between being "deprioritized" and "throttled". Throttling involves placing a hard limit on the speed of data transmission. Deprioritzation means if traffic is heavy in your location, other people who haven't reached the threshold will get more bandwidth allocated to them than you do.
For cellular data caps are about network congestion. For terrestrial Internet, congestion can be solved if the provider is willing to throw more money at it. But for cellular, the options for building more capacity for the last mile is building more towers and making each tower less powerful so it serves a smaller area.
There are two problems with that. It takes years sometimes for municipalities and neighborhoods to approve a tower being built and even if you do have more towers, if you are in a heavily populated area. You still can only have one tower supporting too many people.
There is a maximum amount of data that can be transferred over a certain amount of bandwidth and not all frequencies are suitable for cell data communications.
The first iPhone really wasn't "ready" compared to phones at the time -- no apps, no gps, no 3G, no video camera, couldn't activate without iTune, etc. The iPhone barely worked at the unveiling according to people who worked at Apple at the time. If you did things in the wrong order it crashed.
Not to mention their three or four attempts at cloud services during his reign or Siri that was unveiled right before his death. I'm sure he was involved with it's released schedule.
IOS 9 Released September 2015 supports the iPhone 4s (introduced 2011). iOS 9 supports the 4s,5 (and 5C), 6 and 6s,
With many high end phones it doesn't matter - they support both GSM and CDMA. Lower end phones that you don't buy from the carrier usually only support GSM. Even with the iPhone 5s there are two separate models sold in the U.S. - one that is GSM only and one that is GSM/CDMA.
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/iphone/iphone-faq/differences-between-iphone-5s-models.html
Right now I'm paying $200 with T-mobile for 5 lines all with unlimited data, 14Gb of tethering per line, and you unlimited tethering of video with Binge On active. I can turn off Binge On for our phones.
With the new plans, tethering is more expensive and none is included, you can't turn off Binge On, and it doesn't look like you have unlimited video tethering.
Limited bandwidth data for video is usually okay on the phone but Sling doesn't work reliably with it.
I'll be keeping my current plan.
That's not true. They have truly unlimited plans that don't throttle but do prioritize data after 26Gb. I have never noticed slower speeds. Their other plans do throttle after you reach your high speed data allotment.
With their unlimited plans, they still usually limit tethering to 14GB per month per line - with tethering video data excluded.
Yeah but it's Sprint.
Even if you do have good coverage, I would never suggest a CDMA carrier over a GSM carrier. You can easily get any phone from anywhere and it will work with GSM carriers.
Starting with IOS 10 you will be able to delete Apple apps.
https://support.apple.com/en-u...
Verizon doesn't lock most of their phones and the ones that they do lock, they will unlock for you without too much of a hassle.
http://www.verizon.com/about/c...
Most carriers are allowing customers to have a 0% financing for their phones that are separate from the service. You can pay off the phone and move to another service or you can bring a compatible phone to their service.
Most phones support LTE and work with GSM or CDMA. A GSM only LTE phone won't work with a CDMA carrier if it can't get an LTE signal. Then you have an issue with some phones don't support all of the LTE bands.
But CDMA sucks and only used by a few carriers worldwide.
Phone carriers in the U.S. have moved away from subsidized plans toward service + (optional) finance plans. You can pay for the phone up front and just pay for service.
http://get.tracfone.com/smartp...
Plans do come with limited data but it's only $15/month. If you spend most of your time on wifi. There are plenty of free/low cost VOIP apps that include a phone number.
7 or 10 years support for phone? These were the top of the line phones in 2006:
http://www.cnet.com/news/best-...
I never thought I would be saying this but the Microsoft Store -- both online and the brick stores -- is a great shopping experience. They sell computers from a number of brands without crapware and they are the same prices if not cheaper than the crapware version.
I bought a Dell 2-n-1 Inspiron from there recently. I never thought I would be able to buy a clean Dell consumer computer.
The usual argument is that with DRM you don't own the media. Well when I buy a song from iTunes it doesn't have DRM -- I own the media. When I pay for a subscription service. I pay for it knowing in advance that when I stop subscribing. I no longer have the right to listen to it.
Yeah because we can always trust states to do the right thing without the federal government interfering especially in the Deep South.....
Did you notice how many of those vulnerabilities have already been patched? The latest version of iOS 9.3.3 is compatible with every iOS device sold since September 2011 and was available for every iPhone regardless of carrier the day it was released.
How would downloading apps only from the Google Play store prevent apps from taking advantage of a security flaw in Android?
Have you ever heard Apple make the excuse that it's the fault of a third party driver when there is a security issue with iOS? I doubt that Apple would accept any binary only drivers from someone who produces its chips.
And you didn't answer the rest of the questions. At this point it's kind of obvious that you never studied proper statistical analysis....
So your sample covers the iPhone buying set taking all the variables into account in the representative proportions? Have you taken into consideration all of the variables in your sample dara? Have you studied the different markets where Apple sells iPhones to know what proportions of their phones are sold in which geographic area?
If they upgrade would be dependent on all those factors. So unless you both have a large enough sample of the given population and that sample is proportional your sample size of "dozens" means nothing.
It's completely relevant. How often someone buys a new phone would be a function of whether a certain culture sees a phone as a fashion accessory, whether they have have to pay for the phone up front, the relativel cost of the phone compared to their income, whether the carrier has an installment plan or lease plan. Used phones sell better in some countries than others etc.
So now you've claimed to "have done a study"?
Care to show your statitistical model and sample in relation to how many phones each carrier sold in each region?
I'm claiming no such thing. I'm saying that Apple sells the iPhone in 100+ countries and have 200+ carriers. Does your sample size represent all of those countries and carriers? Different carrier have different marketing techniques. Is your sample size representative of the different ways that carriers sell phones and does your sample size have the same ratio? Some carriers have a lease program that would encourage yearly upgrades. Other carriers make you pay the full price up front. Any of your contacts in foreign countries that speak fluent English are statistically more likely to be better educated.
It's "embarrassing" that you think your "dozens of contacts" would pass muster as a longitudinal cross section of all iPhone users. Your "high degree of certainty" at being right puts you in the company of young-earth creationists and anti-vaxxers.
An alternative like contactless payments like Apple Pay with a one time use token and biometric authentication.