Shigeru Miyamoto wants to create a kinder world

Re:Shigeru Miyamoto wants to create a kinder world by fxtentacle on Friday January 01, 2021 @03:55AM (#25601842)

My guess would be that they just never considered that there would be first world countries without cheap mobile data everywhere.

When I was living in Asia, even in poorer countries and/or rural areas, there was mobile internet. $1/mo for 4G 1GB. People took it for granted at a level that would be impossible in Germany, because here you can still be without even 3G just a few km outside of city centers.

Also, mobile internet repeaters for tunnels are a solved problem. Singapore had no offline areas in their underground metro. Germany has lots of em.

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Re:Shigeru Miyamoto wants to create a kinder world by rmellow on Friday January 01, 2021 @06:33AM (#25602540)

> mobile internet repeaters for tunnels are a solved problem.

True. Unfortunately in Canada (Toronto at least) the big 4 telco oligopoly can't agree on pricing for this one. The result is a single company offers subway coverage!

Nevermind that data here is more expensive than even the US.

Where's that Silicon Valley disruption spirit for the telco oligopolies worldwide?

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Re:Shigeru Miyamoto wants to create a kinder world by hangsi on Friday January 01, 2021 @08:30AM (#25603110)

Here, and probably making its move in the not too distant future:

https://www.starlink.com/

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Re:Shigeru Miyamoto wants to create a kinder world by ubercow13 on Friday January 01, 2021 @07:52AM (#25602915)

Mobile data is cheap in southeast Asia but not very cheap in Japan.

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