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In the quoted post i explicitly stated that it is possible to blow through 250MB in a single day. I have questioned whether MOST people do. Is it that fun knocking down open doors?
MOST, not average. Further, the figure offered for the average use would not amount to 250MB in 1-2 days. No matter how you spin things, the numbers are not on your side.
And since you seem to have a hard time reading, ill repeat myself: Yes it is possible to use even gigabytes of data in a single day. MOST people, however, do not. And more importantly, most people do not have that need! (When given the option to use more without extra cost, people generally do. Thus, actual use is a poor substitute for demand*)
* this works both ways, of course, as it is essentially a function including price. If wireless were free and lightning fast, people would not bother connecting to wifi-networks, for example.
I would watch it at work, using company wifi. Or on the bus, using free public wifi. Or when i got home, using my home wifi. To me, watching a 5 minute ESPN clip is not important enough to spend big money on it. And, you know what, i think MOST people are in my corner on that.
Are there people who do want it straight away? Yes! Can they pay more to do so? Yes. What is the fundamental issue here? If you get an extra refill free of charge, and some people prefer drinking 3 gallons instead so what? Let them buy their 3 gallons. The free refill is still free and thus still a good deal.
Take offense to porn? Porn is like the single most fantastic thing to ever happen to the world of technology. Even if you dont watch it, its the engine behind a vast amount of progress that has been made in the online space.
Yay porn!
oh i can read perfectly fine, in your original post you questioned what people would even blow through 250MB doing. i gave you several examples, now you change your tune, acting like all along you never questioned the inadequacy of a 250MB/mo plan.
numbers are against my side? really? well if you go with what the carriers have said (if you believe that, and trust me...this number is extremely conservative) is that the average data plan user in Q2 2012 consumed 1.1GB per month which increased from 450MB in Q2 2011. with regards to what "most" users use...you have failed to understand what the nature of averages means. average, or mean, means that 50% of people would fall above 1.1GB and 50% below. the above statistic accounts for ALL users who have data plans, whether or not they have a smartphone or a non-smartphone. if you look at just smartphone users, or in other words the only group of people who will be using the 4G network now, that average will be substantially higher thus further making 250MB/mo extremely insufficient.
most public transportation systems do not offer free wifi in the USA. that's great that your's does, however the one in Philadelphia (SEPTA) does not, nor does the one in New Jersey (NJ Transit). since you love using the word "most" - MOST people with smartphones are not using their company's wifi for data during the day, MOST people are not using public transportation wifi during morning and afternoon commutes, and thus MOST people are using the cellular network for their data plans.
your argument has absolutely no foundation to stand on. no direction, nothing. you can't sit there and shot gun an argument in this thread, bouncing around from misc point to misc point. stick with your point and defend it, or don't even bother. no one has questioned the ability to pay more for more data, no one. not me, not anyone else. the point was raised earlier in the thread, before i even joined, that while 250MB/mo for $49/yr seems like a good deal it is more of a gimmick to get people onto a data plan in hopes they exceed the monthly allotment and upgrade to a more expensive plan. it's brilliant marketing - i call it subsidized data, at least at the bottom tier.
AGAIN...importance has nothing to do with reality. the reality is, watching a 5 mins ESPN clip on a 3G network results in 5MB of data consumption. without the ability to toggle video streaming quality manually in nearly every case (videos watched on the iPad open up through Quicktime and ESPN and CNN apps do not allow video stream quality toggling within the app), the ability to effectively control data consumption is lost unless you completely cease the activity all together. that same 5 mins video stream on ESPN results in 50MB since it defaults to a HD standard of video quality. this is why 250MB/mo is not sufficient. that argument is NOT related to your's about "it's a free world, go buy a more expensive data plan". the argument was never that, you're point is not constructive.
i suggest you go back to streaming porn on your iPad in your parents basement on their wifi network, and stay off these forums. you've made a fool of yourself
