[culturestate]

> there are always other, less convenient options (hotspot on phone, standalone hotspot, public Wi-Fi…

Until you’re driving, hypothetically, through rural Arkansas, where there's no Starbucks and your iPhone has juuuuuust enough signal strength to receive the WhatsApp telling you that you need to turn around a couple of slides but not enough bandwidth to download the deck.

Your iPad, though, for reasons known only to the black magic gods of RF design does have a stable-enough LTE connection and it saves your bacon with the large corporate client that dragged you to razorback country in the first place.

Hypothetically.

> You cannot take your mantra to its logical conclusion and apply it to everything, everywhere

There’s a reason I wrote iPad Pro. It’s not my mantra - it’s advice that applies to specific kinds of people in specific kinds of situations. The kind of people who have the means and motivation to run fiber throughout their house, for example.

[ComputerGuru]

Hindsight is 20/20. There’s a reason why insurance policies exist. You can (and should) save money skipping comprehensive insurance on a beater. Unless you are going to get into a car accident found to be your fault in the first year of the policy, in which case it would have made more financial sense to get that comprehensive coverage. But that logic doesn’t hold.