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Originally Posted by nerys
"The reason why the gas analogy doesn't work is because you are comparing a service to a product."
except the ACTION by each company (ie what we are comparing here) IS exactly the same. They want to charge MORE to use their gas simply in a different car.
the gas is not better. its not MORE gas. the ONLY difference is your car is nicer.
Sprint wants to charge more to use their data simply in a different phone
the data is not better. its not More data. the ONLY difference is your phone is nicer.
See how that works? I replace CAR with PHONE and GAS with DATA and both statements make perfect sense.
that is the very founding point of an analogy.
"You don't need to "educate" anyone. People pay for the service with their hard earned money. Once it becomes too costly and too "unfair" people will automatically leave. Sprint can't afford to bleed customers again, so that's why they need to keep prices low. There are plenty of excellent, and cheap, prepaid providers ready and willing to take SERO customers if Sprint gets out of hand. "
that IS the inevitable end result the problem is STOPPING it before it gets to that point and people suffer (not suffer like pain you know what I mean)
the idea is to nip it NOW before it gets too far before a solid precedent is set.
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That's why I pointed out the bandwidth cap that Comcast has. Without a cap, SERO Premium users on average WILL use more data. Android has a superior marketplace, almost nullifying the need to download software on a desktop and transfer them over (I do this often with my TP2). Android also goes online frequently to check for software updates (I often won't know if there are updates for my TP2 software until I search for it myself). Android will also have a far superior flash player soon that makes streaming content far more efficient, thus increasing the data load. Not to mention they will also have updated software, which are generally larger in size. Fring, Skype, etc are essentially not being updated anymore on Windows Mobile, so Android versions will be superior and use more data. HD games for instance, Android is slowly catching up to Iphones and already surpasses Windows Mobile. Most Windows Mobile games are small, within 10mb or so. Android games can hit up to 200mb already. Obviously you can say you don't play games or use any of that...but I probably will with an iconic phone. So will many other SERO Premium users. You might not use more data with SERO Premium, but on average...other people will. We are looking at the average aren't we?
If that is the inevitable end result that Sprint chooses to follow, then I'll inevitably switch to Pageplus or whatever is good at the time. I'm not in love with Sprint by any means and won't feel any remorse to ditching them for someone better. It's not even a big hassle either. A 10-20 minute phone call maybe, and I'll have a new provider.