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It's a pocket computer. The phone feature is a legacy feature that goes away with 2G. Soon carriers will only be moving data. The providers have data to show
by Clent 4y ago
It's a pocket computer.
The phone feature is a legacy feature that goes away with 2G. Soon carriers will only be moving data.
The providers have data to show that the phone functionality is not a primary use case. It is a legacy product whose overhead has a real cost on our economy.
When do we stop paying $10-$20 a month per lines of service, for the privileging of being interrupted? When do we stop calling it a smartphone and treating as such and recognizing it as as computer, a laptop for your pocket.
I expect those born in the last century to be most resistant to the deprecation of the 'phone call' as a concept. People also reminisced about having phone lines that were partied together. Imagine what scammers would do with that today.
- hedora 4y agoI doubt people from the last century are the ones holding on to the idea of a phone call. Whatever telcos are doing these days would have led to jail time in the 1990s. I would like to see a return to the government passing QOS laws for safety critical services, then enforcing them. Since everyone is dunking on twitter these days: How is it legal for them to slap an auth wall on top of emergency response agencies' feeds? If I MITM'ed the emergency broadcast system with such bullshit, I'd go to jail. Twitter is used during emergencies by at least 100x more people than emergency broadcast.
- qu4z-2 4y agoUnfortunately it kind of fails at being a good pocket computer (all else aside they got rid of the concept of files and replaced it with nothing). The fact that it fails at being a phone too is just adding insult to injury.