iPhone 6 Plus Owners Use Twice as Much Data as iPhone 6 Owners

[bawbac]

Bad attempt at a troll post...

IQ has been increasing at incredible rates since 1950, so much so that the average kid in 1950 would be mentally handicapped by today's standards, and the average kid today would be exceptionally gifted by 1950s standards. It's referred to as the Flynn Effect.

Technology has assisted in this, and the gap of what we are capable of with and without it will only continue to grow... intellectual deficiency will simply be tied to your abiliy (or willingness) to utilize the tools that are present. People with a better grasp of technology and keep up with it will continually outsmart those that do not. And visual media is a huge part of this...

Riiiight...
Tell me a how many 10-18 yr olds or people who know their own home phone number or phone numbers of their friends. They can't. The ability to remember is degrading quickly thanks to technology.

IQ is not increasing, people are just keeping up with technology and education but once that's been obtained, using technology excessively kills the brain because it requires no intelligence other than motor skills of a 3 year old.

Saying people of past were not as smart is very typical response from an inferior person. The technology being implemented today was created/theorized by those people you believe are not as intelligent as people of today.

People are more dumb now that ever before and also feel entitled to everything. Technology will be our downfall until we learn to use it for a better purpose.

 

[JAT]

Only insightful for that one particular point he was making. He's asserting that big iPhone buyers buy the big iPhones because they don't have larger screens and that's why they use so much data. Right, and this is based on what evidence?

Observation.

 

[johnnyturbouk]

I can believe this, i do so much more on my iphone. Its pretty much my secondary pc - sold my ipad last year prior to the ipad airs 2 coming out, and my nexus is gathering dust!

I do so much with my iphone now: reading, browsing, answering / composing emails, watching netflix, tv and endless trash/trope on youtube

 

[fmaxwell]

Only insightful for that one particular point he was making. He's asserting that big iPhone buyers buy the big iPhones because they don't have larger screens and that's why they use so much data. Right, and this is based on what evidence?

It's based demographics. According to Pew Research, when the largest iPhone had a 4" screen size, iPhones were still the number one choice for those with household incomes over $75K. Those people weren't buying "phablets." That name, in and of itself, should give you a clue as to how those devices were used.

I am typing this on a system with a 30" display plus a 24" display. I have an iPad Air which I use extensively with cellular data (AT&T). Therefore, I don't need, or want, an iPhone 6 plus which is inconvenient to carry and to use as a handheld mobile phone. My iPhone 5S works just fine for me.

 

[Elvergun]

It's based demographics. According to Pew Research, when the largest iPhone had a 4" screen size, iPhones were still the number one choice for those with household incomes over $75K. Those people weren't buying "phablets." That name, in and of itself, should give you a clue as to how those devices were used.

I am typing this on a system with a 30" display plus a 24" display. I have an iPad Air which I use extensively with cellular data (AT&T). Therefore, I don't need, or want, an iPhone 6 plus which is inconvenient to carry and to use as a handheld mobile phone. My iPhone 5S works just fine for me.

I'm with you, I don't want the plus because it is too big to carry and use.

But that's the great thing about the the plus -- it gives you the options. If I was a woman (or if men were allowed to use a purse ) I would use the plus instead of my 6. IMO, the plus is just too big to carry in the pocket of my jeans or strapped to a belt.

 

[Shanghaichica]

I stayed with the same data allowance when I upgraded to the 6 plus. My previous plan was taken out for the 5S but I sold it after one month and got the note 3 before moving onto the S5. So I figured that I wouldn't use any more data than I had been as my previous phones had large screens anyway. I have 8GB of 4G data and that most I've ever used in one month is 5 GB and that was only because my home broadband was off for a few days. In a typical month I use 2-3GB so 8GB is plenty.

 

[viorelgn]

It's so True, with the 4s, I was using maybe a Gb, a month, then came the 5s, still about 900MB a month, but the 6plus, your not gonna believe it, 998.89Gb, last month, that's a lot of a Netflix, and Bollywood movies, easy eat 5/7Gb, a movie, then teethering with Apple TV, Smart Tv, work, watch Live News, more movies on Movie box, listen to radio in car, data hungry, even whilst waiting in car sit watching films, dramas, soaps, downloading music the list goes on and on and on!

 

[BuffaloTF]

Riiiight...
Tell me a how many 10-18 yr olds or people who know their own home phone number or phone numbers of their friends. They can't. The ability to remember is degrading quickly thanks to technology.

IQ is not increasing, people are just keeping up with technology and education but once that's been obtained, using technology excessively kills the brain because it requires no intelligence other than motor skills of a 3 year old.

Saying people of past were not as smart is very typical response from an inferior person. The technology being implemented today was created/theorized by those people you believe are not as intelligent as people of today.

People are more dumb now that ever before and also feel entitled to everything. Technology will be our downfall until we learn to use it for a better purpose.

Yeah... except your wrong. Sorry I haven't checked this in a few weeks. But IQs have skyrocketed along with technology and has done so since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. It's a simple fact. 3 points per decade, on average. Flynn Effect. Look it up. Saying it hasn't is a very typical response from someone in denial and with a very real inferiority complex.

Knowing your home phone number -- something you had to do for emergencies, is not relevant information to anybody these days. Not a single person. Not you, not me, certainly not children. It's been that way since speed-dial buttons started hitting our home landline telephones in the 80s. All you need to know today is someone's name - the number has already been saved by something else so you don't have to. Your mind is freed up beyond useless rote memorizaton to more complex tasks. Further, this is a much more complex task if it were to be approached today. Both parents work. That means you'd need to know several numbers, instead of 1-3 numbers... home phone, mom's cell, dad's cell, grandparents home phone x2, grandma's cell x2, grandpa's cell x2, mom's work, dad's work. You're looking at 11 numbers, to replace "home phone" memorization. Simply put... children today operate well in a much more complex world with ease.

This doesn't mean previous generations were dumb... they clearly had the ability to deal with the world in which they lived quite well. But IQs are rising because of the modern world - education, technology - changing the very way we think and setting the young apart from their ancestors. It's affecting the strength of the brain in various ways, as different parts of your brain focus on different things. And each minor gain in intelligence by a parent is passed along to the next generation... we are the ones that socialize children.

 

[twoodcc]

well yes, a bigger screen does mean more data. what about other big phones, like the note 4? how does it compare?

 

[Keirasplace]

Yeah... except your wrong. Sorry I haven't checked this in a few weeks. But IQs have skyrocketed along with technology and has done so since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. It's a simple fact. 3 points per decade, on average. Flynn Effect. Look it up. Saying it hasn't is a very typical response from someone in denial and with a very real inferiority complex.

Knowing your home phone number -- something you had to do for emergencies, is not relevant information to anybody these days. Not a single person. Not you, not me, certainly not children. It's been that way since speed-dial buttons started hitting our home landline telephones in the 80s. All you need to know today is someone's name - the number has already been saved by something else so you don't have to. Your mind is freed up beyond useless rote memorizaton to more complex tasks. Further, this is a much more complex task if it were to be approached today. Both parents work. That means you'd need to know several numbers, instead of 1-3 numbers... home phone, mom's cell, dad's cell, grandparents home phone x2, grandma's cell x2, grandpa's cell x2, mom's work, dad's work. You're looking at 11 numbers, to replace "home phone" memorization. Simply put... children today operate well in a much more complex world with ease.

This doesn't mean previous generations were dumb... they clearly had the ability to deal with the world in which they lived quite well. But IQs are rising because of the modern world - education, technology - changing the very way we think and setting the young apart from their ancestors. It's affecting the strength of the brain in various ways, as different parts of your brain focus on different things. And each minor gain in intelligence by a parent is passed along to the next generation... we are the ones that socialize children.

Basing your whole argument on IQ is kind of bizarre seeing as how much its actual validity it contested by people actually working fields related to intelligence and learning.

Around here (Quebec), a major increase in schooling, healthcare and nutrition would all by itself explain any increase in whatever test used over the last 50 years (even in 15 years increment).

I do agree that rote learning by itself is not useful; it shouldn't comprise a most, or even a significant par of the curriculum. Doesn't mean it has no use at all though.

Developing the basics of memory and processing helps in future learning. Educational games/even computer can be helpful for this in preschool and early grade school. Building those mechanics doesn't need to be boring.

By the time you get to latter years of grade school the canvas for more complex learning should in place.

 

[AleXXXa]

Used 60GB of data during my last billing period. Streaming video is certainly more enjoyable with a larger screen (versus a 5/5s).

Yeah. Wait till u see a video on a TV. It will knock your socks off.