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As exchange for their otherwise unpaid service from those devices, they're using a fraction of your potentially capped internet if you happen to be in a market
by ikiris 5y ago
As exchange for their otherwise unpaid service from those devices, they're using a fraction of your potentially capped internet if you happen to be in a market with such poor competition and/or poor regulatory environment that your service is capped.
- chasebro 5y agoSo like 90% of the US?
- Dylan16807 5y agoThe US is full of slow internet, but it's not particularly plagued by capped internet. There are a bunch of 1TB caps around, but a cap like that would suggest that the value of 500MB is 3 to 10 cents at most. Just using 3 watts at idle is already enough to cost the average person 25 cents a month.
- drusepth 5y agoWould love to see a source to back this number up if you have one. I had caps on almost every ISP I had in Europe, but even out in the boonies here in the US I've only seen caps on one (unfortunate) connection.
- prepend 5y ago> unpaid I paid $200 (although much cheaper now) for my echo years ago. This isn’t a free device and the services it provides cost me actual money to be able to use. Pretty funny to spin this as “you paid $200 for this device, but all the services on it are free.”
- ikiris 5y agoDo you think it's stealing your power too?
- prepend 5y agoI don’t think that’s relevant as I spend power to make this tool operational. I still paid for the tool. It wasn’t free. I also provide shelter, insurance, cleaning, etc. I was commenting on how GP called the functions of the Echo “free” when they are certainly not free.
- mrobins 5y agoWhether it’s capped or not is irrelevant. It’s still taking advantage of a paid resource without explicit permission. Also if it leads to increased demand across an ISP it will inevitably cause higher prices.