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The prevalence of WiFi is largely dependent on where you live. Even mildly outside of large cities it's difficult to find open networks. I think a lot of peop
by fossuser 15y ago
The prevalence of WiFi is largely dependent on where you live. Even mildly outside of large cities it's difficult to find open networks. I think a lot of people prefer Android not just because of its openness, but because they're much more customizable (although I suppose you could argue this is the same thing). Some of the android hardware is pretty competitive, if not better, as well and with LTE bringing in 20+mbps speeds it's a pretty nice feature.
- PLejeck 15y agoWith customizability comes god-awful user interfaces.
- thetrendycyborg 15y agoBut also "why the hell haven't I always been using this" interfaces.
- georgemcbay 15y agoEven in large cities, availability of wifi can be very hit or miss. Based on my completely anecdotal data from a few different cities, the wifi situation was actually quite a bit better a couple of years ago than it is today. Granted, the number of wifi points you can see keeps growing, but the percentage of them that are locked down has also increased, so there's actually less points available. Part of this is people getting wise to security, which is overall a good thing (if inconvenient for a harmless wifi poacher that just wants to check his own email). But increasingly this is also due to retail places putting limits on or eliminating their wifi due to realizing it tends to result in people who are more loiterers than customers.