Subj : Re: KICQ as an "Old New I
To   : Andeddu
From : Arelor
Date : Sat Jul 10 2021 17:22:08

  Re: Re: KICQ as an "Old New I
  By: Andeddu to Arelor on Sat Jul 10 2021 09:06 pm

 > I guess roll outs re tech happen at a different pace depending on which continent, country and
 > region you reside. In most dense cities and towns in the UK, the 4G network is robust and can
 > handle 720p/1080p video streams and confernece calls with no issue. Even rural villages appear t
 > have strong 4G signals and are able to sustain all of the above. I understand that it's not nice
 > leaving people behind or forcing people to move on to newer technologies if they're happy with w
 > they've got... but that's what progress is all about. I think, especially with COVID, we are mov
 > very quickly down the technological path and most people are starting to grasp now that this is 
 > future -- people are going to work from home remotely and sometimes children are going to be tau
 > via virtual class rooms and court trials are going to be handled through a virtual court. We are
 > becoming highly dependent on the internet and I cannot see things changing post-COVID.
 > 

The problem is when they try to sell you a *something* that happens to be a non-working product,
you declare it is a non-working product and that you want your old working product back, and what
you get is "that's what progress is all about."

"Update yourself man, banking over mobile applications is the future!"

I am fine with it being the future, but if the mobile platform is failing more often than not I
want to be able to do my banking over a regular web browser. It sucks when they remove a product
that used to work and replace it by something that does not.

Here is this, my old home ISP used to run a Wimax nerwork for rural settlements that was quite ok.
One day the shut it down and told every customer to switch over to a home 4G plan. The only problem
was, the reason why people had signed up for the Wimax plans instead of a 4G one was precisely
because mobile plans in this area dare unstable, suffer from data caps, and place customers behind
massive CG-NATs. The ISP tried to convince everybody that moving to 4G was a better more modern
system. "The future" and "getting on with the times."

What happened is people switched over to ANOTHER ISP that still offered Wimax.

I suspect it is part of this trend of having end users be the beta testers of your technology. They
don't sell you working solutions anymore, they sell you half-baked ones and the promise that it
will work tomorrow.

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