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I guess I don't get it either. "Fixed price" is always a floor, never a ceiling. How is that good for you? My power bill isn't the same every month. My water b

I guess I don't get it either. "Fixed price" is always a floor, never a ceiling. How is that good for you? My power bill isn't the same every month. My water bill isn't either. I know my patterns and roughly the monthly cost, and I can use less if money is tight. You know how much cellular data I use per month? 0KB. Why? Because I don't want a giant fixed price add-on to my bill. If I could buy a smart phone, use WiFi 95% of the time, and spend $5 on data once in a while when I need it, I would use some. But I'm not jumping on a fixed price. I'm not paying for more than what I use.

apenwarr 15y ago
You just described the payment model Apple negotiated for the iPad. No contract, no subsidies, just a flat payment: $x for $y GB in 30 days. If you don't use it in 30 days, it's gone, but if you use it in less than 30 days, you can just buy another block of bandwidth (and restart the 30-day counter). I think it's great, especially when travelling to different countries (which seem to all offer this option - only for iPad).