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mobile computers replacing desktopmobile computers replacing desktopPosted Sep 10, 2012 12:42 UTC (Mon) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)In reply to: mobile computers replacing desktop by khim Parent article: Improving Ubuntu's application upload process
>> It's only good enough if you live in an area with good Internet connectivity
> Well, this is where all the PCs live. In areas where you don't have good Internet connectivity (such as Africa) you don't have PCs, just mobile phones so all these discussions are even less relevant.
sorry to surprise you, but it's not just places like Africa that don't have good connectivity.
It's also places in the US.
And it's not even limited to things like people living on farms. I live just outside of Los Angeles and the best I can get is 1.5Mb down. There are people within 10 miles of me who cannot even get that, and who don't have any cellular network coverage at their houses. In some cases these are million dollar houses, so it's not just the poor people who are impacted. I'm not even talking 4G/LTE coverage, I'm talking 3G and voice covereage that is spotty.
I have a friend who lives within 5 miles of the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena who can get cell coverage from outside his house, but inside it usually doesn't work
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mobile computers replacing desktop Posted Sep 10, 2012 16:34 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] In some cases these are million dollar houses, so it's not just the poor people who are impacted. It's not the question of how much money a given person has. It's question of how much a given person is ready to spend on the internet, phone and all other goodies. If s/he does not want to spend enough to get a good internet in their home then why do you think s/he'll be ready to spend substantial money on software and hardware?
mobile computers replacing desktop Posted Sep 10, 2012 17:17 UTC (Mon) by Jonno (subscriber, #49613) [Link]
> If s/he does not want to spend enough to get a good internet in their home then why do you think s/he'll be ready to spend substantial money on software and hardware?
Because "substantial money on software and hardware" is only about €5'000, while a good internet connection cost about €10'000 per km away from the nearest ISP junction. You know, not everyone live in big cities...
mobile computers replacing desktop Posted Sep 12, 2012 18:46 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
It's the UK too. Whole villages (and some towns) have full exchanges, no cable modem fitted yet, no new broadband installs, and DACSes landing on lines everywhere -- and the first person to ask for broadband gets hit with the full cost of the exchange upgrade. Oddly everyone there survives on high-latency hyper-expensive horrors such as satellite broadband (more expensive for 1Mb/s 4Gb/month, metered, HTTP only than I pay for two lines 40Mb/s 250Gb/month on domestic ADSL), or goes without.
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