5G speeds are improving rapidly. https://www.speedtest.net/global-index/united-states https://www.speedtest.net/global-index/united-states Verizon launched mi

5G speeds are improving rapidly. https://www.speedtest.net/global-index/united-states https://www.speedtest.net/global-index/united-states Verizon launched mid-band 5G in Q1 2022 and saw its average speeds increase from 79Mbps to 107Mbps. That might not seem like much, but it's also barely deployed. T-Mobile has seen its speeds more than double from 82Mbps to 191Mbps over the past year. That's going to keep increasing over the next couple years as they continue to upgrade their networks (AT&T is mostly waiting until new equipment becomes available for them in the second half of 2022). I think a lot of people forget the 5-8Mbps that LTE launched with - which seemed barely better than what HSPA+ could offer. This is such a weird article for April 2022. > 5G does seem to offer advantages for a limited number of customers and you can really get great speeds if you’re able to connect to mmWave, which is rare Except that it's offering a 5-10x improvement a lot of the time on mid-band and T-Mobile now covers 210M people with mid-band and Verizon covers 100M (with T-Mobile targeting 260M covered by the end of 2022 and 300M covered by the end of 2023 and Verizon targeting 175M covered by the end of 2022 and 250M covered by the end of 2024). 200-500Mbps mid-band 5G is very different from 20-70Mbps LTE. The article is right that Apple wasn't late to the party, but the article is very wrong that 5G isn't offering anything meaningful. If you're on AT&T, you aren't seeing it yet. If you're on Verizon and not one of their 5G Ultra Wideband plans or not in their somewhat limited mid-band coverage area, you aren't seeing it. If you're on T-Mobile, most likely you are seeing it since they cover a decent majority of Americans (over 60%) and it's available on all their plans. 5G was hyped a couple years early for sure. I'd totally understand this article in 2020. In 2022, it's really weird given given the abundant evidence that 5G is coming along nicely. Sure, it was hyped too early and for most Americans it'll still be a year or two (given that around 2/3rds of Americans are on AT&T and Verizon and even T-Mobile is only covering around 60% at this point). Why not write this article in Fall 2020 when Apple introduced its 5G iPhone? It would have been relevant and meaningful then. Today, it feels like someone wanted to regurgitate a criticism that was valid at one point and isn't valid anymore. Let's write articles about how consumers won't want touchscreen keyboards on their phones and how the BlackBerry is here to stay. Let's talk about how social networking is a fad. Let's talk about how Tesla will never be successful because the cars take too long to charge. All of those could have been fine articles at a certain time. Writing them today would seem really weird given that we now have evidence to the contrary.