Comment Re:Bank, please explain me once again... (Score 1) 161
Really? It's called an application. You write one specifically for the bank. Also the cost of the electronic transfer doesn't have anything to do with the problem.
Really? It's called an application. You write one specifically for the bank. Also the cost of the electronic transfer doesn't have anything to do with the problem.
Isn't everybody supposed to be storing everything in The Cloud soon? Capacity won't matter and it will be available all the time and it will just work over the all encompassing, ever reliable, internet? Web apps for everybody!
I still don't get the continuing obsession with the idea that everything on the internet should be free. There's no free lunch. It costs money to run the servers, write the software, create the information that is being served and on and on. Yet all this should be free. So everything ends up being supported by ads. If customers would be willing to pay a reasonable free for the services rendered, everybody wins. The folks who run the service can stay in business and customers can get a quality product without being bombarded by ads.
The rate at which demand is increasing will far outpace any attempt at building infrastructure to keep up. It's that simple.
A simple solution is to rely on old fashioned supply and demand. Demand is huge and the supply is limited. Use all you want, you just have to pony up for it. It's fair for everybody. Maybe ATT could lower the price for customers who don't use a ton of bandwidth.
I'm not an advocate of the capitalism-can-solve-everything view but in this case it seems straight forward.
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