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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice
The need for physical media won't be dead until we have universal broadband - which we don't. i live out in the country, and the only way we can get internet connectivity is via satellite - which has a strict bandwidth per day limit - we've got the highest possible non-commercial program, and it's still not enough to download software. I can't even download my audiobooks at home.
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This.
About 8 years ago I moved from an urban area, where I had enjoyed cable broadband, to a rural area, where I went back to dial-up. Do you know how long it would take to donwload 2.3GB on dial-up?
My other option was satellite (which got terrible reviews at the time, and was vastly more expensive). I toughed it out for a couple years, and then switched to wireless broadband from a wireless provider. But the speeds were still relatively crappy (often <1Mb/s), and there was a data cap, to boot. Everyone does not have the same resources and access to the internet. That's one of the reasons I laugh everytime someone touts the cloud as the greatest thing in the world, and dismisses the need for storage. That stuff on the cloud is only useful to you if you can actually access it.