John Gruber at Daring Fireball had this to say about Verizon dropping their unlimited data plans:
If you use more than 2 GB per month you’re going to pay more, but this strikes me as fair, because most people don’t use that much data.
I can’t understand this viewpoint at all. $30 for 2 GB, $80 for 10, and $10 for every GB over your allotment? How can he think that’s fair? And even if it’s true that most people don’t use that much data right now, aren’t phones becoming people’s primary computers? What happens when they want to start using it like their desktop, streaming music with Pandora or watching videos on Netflix and YouTube?
This seems to me a very shortsighted view, and I’m sad to hear it from somebody with as much reach as Mr. Gruber.
