Android accounts for one-quarter of mobile web traffic
Android is mopping up Apple and RIM's declining mobile mindshare in the US, you'll find nothing but corroboration from Quantcast. The analytics firm reckons a full one-quarter of mobile web traffic stateside comes from devices running Google's OS
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I don't understand why people freak out about $30 a month for mobile data. That seems like a pretty solid bargain to me. I pay $35 a month for unlimited data and messaging on T-Mobile and I think they're practically giving it away at that price. Some people are just cheap.
it's a matter of choice -- there are some consumers who don't want/need a data plan, they just want a pda and phone in one with a decent keyboard -- you can do this with virtually any pda type phone on GSM networks if you choose to
further, people like paying a reasonable amount for what they use and have flexibility --> e.g. texting plans cost far in excess of their cost to the provider --> this can occur due to the market existing in a situation called an oligopoly which is coming close to mimicking a monopoly given the significant barriers to entry and the difficulty for individuals to switch between plans --> that is, one expects tech costs to go down yet a la carte text messaging fees have increased 10x of the past several years when internal costs have no doubt fell
I hope ESN/MEID cloning becomes widespread to combat these corrupt Verizon practices as the intent of that law -- to steal service from someone else -- is no longer an issue and it can be used to bypass Verizon's different plan pricing for different model phones (i.e. this law allows them to engage in more surgical price discrimination than any GSM provider with limited exception)