Buy a pixel and all that bloatware will disappear.
On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 8:38 PM Ken Hohhof wrote:
> Could Samsung please get rid of Bixby? Like Microsoft’s Clippy but less
> cute and more annoying. I would pay extra to NOT have Bixby. Doesn’t help
> there’s a dedicated button that’s easy
Could Samsung please get rid of Bixby? Like Microsoft’s Clippy but less cute
and more annoying. I would pay extra to NOT have Bixby. Doesn’t help there’s
a dedicated button that’s easy to accidentally press and summon Bixby, kind of
like Beetlejuice.
From: AF On Behalf Of Bill Prince
Kurt,
We try to sign as short as possible but normally it's 3 years. But if we
need more bandwidth, we are always working with sales guys to upgrade at
cheaper per megabit prices.
So basically going from 1 gig to 10 gig for a small price increase. Or if
there's 2 years left, sometimes we are
When I was a very young man, my uncle's power went out. This, of course
caused his sump pump to fail. As I was helping him lug out his destroyed
furniture and carpet from his beautiful finished basement, he would just
repeat, "if you have a guy down, you might as well kick him" ...ha. I
understand
Old stories and falsehoods.
If you get pure Android (lots of choices; just none of them are
"Samsung").
Updates are regular and seamless, backup/restore is also easy;
almost transparent.
Pure Android is the same everywhere.
2 x macs
2 x iphone
2 x iPads.
Android is too segmented. An app works on one device but not another. One
vendor provides software updates, another decides they are going to stop
updating.
Samsung and many others throw so much crap on Android it’s not even like
Android.
Backup and restore
Our house is 100% Android. I have a Chromebook, which runs
android apps in a VM, and it makes a pretty decent tablet when I
convert it to tablet mode. I do have a 9-year-old ipod, but I
don't think that counts; don't really use it anyway. Most of my
friends have
Between the wife and I we have 7 devices. Of which we each have an android
and iOS phone. She has an android tablet, I have an iPad and an Amazon Fire
tablet. Based on what I see my clients have iOS is well in the lead. Those
that do have android have Samsung’s. Tablets are 90% iOS.
On Sat, Dec
Ditto
On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 5:59 PM Mathew Howard wrote:
> That's surprising, I wouldn't have guessed that IOS was more popular than
> Android in the US. I would've guessed it was closer to 60/40 the other way.
>
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2019, 3:43 PM Bill Prince wrote:
>
>> OK. I had the worldwide
That's surprising, I wouldn't have guessed that IOS was more popular than
Android in the US. I would've guessed it was closer to 60/40 the other way.
On Sat, Dec 14, 2019, 3:43 PM Bill Prince wrote:
> OK. I had the worldwide ratio pretty close, but I had no clue about the
> US. In the US it's
The Apple model of sales, which worked really well until Microsoft came
along... People will pay more as long as they don't see an
alternative, then will jump in a second.
On 12/14/2019 12:48 PM, Darin Steffl wrote:
We're small but we had a small price increase October of 2018 and added
Wow, who woulda thunk.
From: AF On Behalf Of Bill Prince
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2019 3:43 PM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Apple vs Android demographics
OK. I had the worldwide ratio pretty close, but I had no clue about the US.
In the US it's pretty much 60:40 in favor
Darin,
How are you re-negotiating fiber contracts every year? Are you only on 12
month contracts? Who are you fiber providers?
On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 4:22 PM Darin Steffl
wrote:
> We call our fee "carrier cost recovery charge" on the bill.
>
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2019, 4:20 PM Darin Steffl
>
OK. I had the worldwide ratio pretty close, but I had no clue
about the US. In the US it's pretty much 60:40 in favor of IOS. In
the rest of the world it's all over the map. India is 90:10 in
favor of Android, while Canada looks close to 50:50.
Details here:
We call our fee "carrier cost recovery charge" on the bill.
On Sat, Dec 14, 2019, 4:20 PM Darin Steffl wrote:
> Ken,
>
> We do charge the same fee CenturyLink does. That was our price increase in
> October 2018. The different between us and CL is that the fee actually
> helps to pay for our
Ken,
We do charge the same fee CenturyLink does. That was our price increase in
October 2018. The different between us and CL is that the fee actually
helps to pay for our network improvements like preseem and Calix. It leads
to a better experience for customers. We also didn't hide it in small
You may be looking at a symptom as a metric. You may happen to be poking
around more often on a customer network because Apple centric customers
consume more support time. The gear is just more problematic. And since
they openly do things like updates that kill batteries, aplle devices are
rotated
Worldwide, Android has an 80% share, give or take. That makes it
4:1 in favor of Android.
The US is different, and I'm pretty sure Android is still more
popular, but not as much. I have not seen, or maybe I don't
remember what the ratio is.
Most of my friends
I need to take your email and make a poster out of it, and read it daily.
Maybe put the last paragraph on a mug.
Don’t you wish you could do like Centurylink and charge an “Internet Cost
Recovery Fee” because people use more data?
We're small but we had a small price increase October of 2018 and added
another $7,000 per month in revenue. We lost 2 customers from it. So we
lost $140 in revenue to gain $7,000 more.
It was a no brainer. We probably had 5% of customers want clarification of
the increase above and beyond what
I mean which plans are your more popular.
I would guess the plan one notch up from the bottom?
From: Darin Steffl
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2019 12:56 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Google WiFi and 5 GHz interference
Chuck,
We qualify each address to find
Chuck,
We qualify each address to find out which speeds we put them on the best
plan and price we can if they're in an area with horns. But right now, 80%
of our new customer installs are rural areas with the higher pricing and
lower speed plans I linked to. We're no longer building any new sites
Which is more popular?
From: Darin Steffl
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2019 12:29 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Google WiFi and 5 GHz interference
Rural pricing:
http://www.mnwifi.com/service-plans/internet-service/fup
City pricing where we have horns:
Rural pricing:
http://www.mnwifi.com/service-plans/internet-service/fup
City pricing where we have horns:
http://www.mnwifi.com/service-plans/internet-service/5g-plans/
On Sat, Dec 14, 2019, 2:17 PM wrote:
> Mind sharing your plan prices?
>
> *From:* Darin Steffl
> *Sent:* Saturday,
We used to charge $50 upfront and $10 per month for Calix. Now we just
increased our plan prices and give the Calix away for free.
We have 99% take rate when it's free.
On Sat, Dec 14, 2019, 12:30 PM Kurt Fankhauser
wrote:
> Sean,
>
> Do you charge the customer for any up-front hardware costs
Sean,
Do you charge the customer for any up-front hardware costs when you install
Calix or are you only getting ROI from the $12/monthly ??
On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 3:38 AM Sean Heskett wrote:
> We install a Calix as a “trial” so we have visibility into their network
> and voila all their Wi-Fi
Thank you for the information...please send me the prescription required...
On Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 12:03 PM Steve Jones
wrote:
> as a prior medical practitioner, i have to inform you that 4 is not enough
>
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 1:00 PM Jaime Solorza
> wrote:
>
>> Yesterday was 120 ft. To
We install a Calix as a “trial” so we have visibility into their network
and voila all their Wi-Fi problems go away. After the free month trial it
becomes a paid service and for $12/mo we make sure their Wi-Fi keeps
working. Win-win for us and them ;-)
-Sean
On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 10:33 AM
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