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This is as user unfriendly as it gets. People want to look for hours of cat pictures and netflix videos (or facebook, instagram, or snapchat). Once phones star
by askmike 8y ago
This is as user unfriendly as it gets. People want to look for hours of cat pictures and netflix videos (or facebook, instagram, or snapchat).
Once phones start throwing this kind of crap in people's faces there will be (understandable outrage) and bad sales figures. Technology is supposed to make your life easier, not harder.
- IanSanders 8y agoYou had it just before the last sentence. Technology is supposed to make profit. Cat pictures don't require abnormal amount of battery and bandwidth. All streaming videos could use a dedicated API method, excluded from the cap. Browser content would be more difficult to regulate, on the other hand web apps don't have as much permissions as native ones.
- makecheck 8y agoOne of my goals is to put the blame in the right place. It isn’t “my phone can’t last all day”, it’s “terrible apps are wasteful and do questionable things”. It isn’t “I need a better data plan for another $10 a month”, it’s “apps are greedy, lazy and, to put it mildly, sub-optimal in their use of data”. And so on. Annoyed developers and ruined sales will NOT affect apps that are already good citizens.