> In fact, that's exactly what they do anyway -- they just charge an
> additional, arbitrary "smartphone" fee on top of it if you happen to be
> using a smartphone. And you're saying it's because of bandwidth? With
> what they're charging for bandwidth, you'd think that's already built
> into the bandwidth plan -- and it has to be, to some extent, given that
> my "non-smartphone" can already download apps, music, and video, and can
> message/email said music/video to others.It may well be, but I suspect that in practice, the difference in network
load between a phone that watches youtube and a phone that browses plain
text web sites is pretty large.
Certainly. But again, that's something which can be dealt with in practice,
not pre-emptively.
> Well, again, it comes down to compiling Ruby vs compiling your C program.
> If they can compile Ruby, there's no compiling needed for your Ruby
> script, it just runs -- so it's still exactly one compile step.Except that, in practice, "I need to install a new programming language" is
a bigger deal than "I'll run this thing which uses existing standard
tools".
Well, except in this case, they're pretty much the same thing.
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