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Apple needs to stop restricting downloads to Wi-Fi. This isn’t 2000.
It has nothing to do with thinking it's 2000, and everything to do with correctly realizing that most users are morons. Do you really think Apple wants to listen to idiots who blew through their data limit?
Apple should put up the disclaimer and start allowing those of us who are competent and responsible for our own actions to download with cellular data.
Such a disclaimer would be utterly meaningless. People think they shouldn't have to read.
While I know that these limits are imposed by Apple, I do think that the cellular companies would strongly oppose the removal of them.
That could very well be a part of why they are still in place; coupled with not wanting to hear people complain about their data caps.
That could very well be a part of why they are still in place; coupled with not wanting to hear people complain about their data caps.
If you have a 150MB data limit in 2018, no one can help you.
I think he more meant people downloading several HD movies, music libraries, and photos to the tune of multiple gigs.
Probably he did.
But if you're complaining about the limit you probably have a higher data cap or unlimited data anyway. If you aren't complaining about it, you probably don't download stuff like this so it's not an issue.
Totally just my opinion though.
I can download a 300 mg app on my iPhone X on cellular data. I just hit download sometimes is shows up as over 150 MB’s. I just go to the home screen and the app is on there but black I hit it and it starts to download even on cellular.
Some app store apps have incremental downloads allowing you to get around the limit.
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Yeah, this download limit is becoming more of an annoyance than a useful feature, especially in regions where you only have the cellular connection as your internet connection.
And the purpose of preventing stupid customers from overusing their quota is invalid as the limit is not there when the connection is turned into a hotspot. In fact, I frequently had to do this as a workaround, putting my SIM into my LTE iPad and use it as a hotspot.
With all the progressive technologyApple is pushing (usb C, no headphone jack, etc), it is ironic that they still have this limitation.
And the purpose of preventing stupid customers from overusing their quota is invalid as the limit is not there when the connection is turned into a hotspot. In fact, I frequently had to do this as a workaround, putting my SIM into my LTE iPad and use it as a hotspot.
With all the progressive technologyApple is pushing (usb C, no headphone jack, etc), it is ironic that they still have this limitation.
This is usually due to app thinning, not because the limit isn't actually there.
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Of course the limit is still there. The limit isn't being imposed by the device functioning as the hotspot, it's being imposed by the device doing the download. That device is now connected via wifi, so the limit doesn't apply.
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Google isn't the phone manufacturer (yes, yes, Google sells a vanishingly small percentage of phones with their own branding). Morons aren't going to go after Google for overrunning their data plan. Maybe they're not going to go after Samsung, LG, HTC, whomever. But Apple is a large target and the stupids always blame Apple for their own stupidity.
I guess I just wouldn’t understand why any consumer would be opposed to having the option?
Whether unlimited or not, if I want to pay for data to download apps or upgrade my device from, why would anyone care that isn’t paying my bill?
Whether unlimited or not, if I want to pay for data to download apps or upgrade my device from, why would anyone care that isn’t paying my bill?
Who said anything about the consumer not wanting the option? Everyone always wants screws they can turn randomly. But a settable option is just an admission that you can't get the default right. Apple thinks they have the default right.
Anyone that has to listen to you (generic "you", I have no idea or care what your personal data plan is) complain when you go over your data limit cares.
Want? I quite honestly couldn't care less, although I accept that others do. It would never occur to me to download that sort of content over cellular, that's what wifi is for.
Stupids, on the other hand, are their own problem and usually their own solution.
The discussion is about why the option isn't there.
Why?
If you are paying for cellular and you have a decent connection/speed and unlimited data (or a high cap) why is WiFi relegated to being the only source for this kind of data?
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Google might not be the manufacturer but go on any Android centric forum. Nobody is complaining about it. Google allows it but you need to actually allow it to do it off WiFi. Every time or I think push a button saying don’t ask me again.