than what EvDO provides (if it's even available in the area). Is it
just the 3 screen setup?
2. You seem to be skewing this to your particulars of how you travel.
Not everyone else does the same or uses the same applications - both
on the Treo and for business travel. You can't presume to know every
dimension of every situation a Treo user travelling on business will
encounter do you?
3. Sprint Vision = 1xrtt. Sprint Power Vision = EvDO.
On 5/20/06, Craig Froehle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/19/06, Wallach, Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > We all pay for things you we could get for fractions of the cost every
> > day. Ever eat any meals out as opposed to buying the raw ingredients
> > and cooking them yourself?
>
> Levi, my point was *not* that the cheapest solution is always the
> best, which seems to be all that you took away from my post. My point
> was that for a "business traveller" (i.e., someone who travels
> regularly on business), $10/day hotel Wi-Fi is likely to be _neither_
> the cheapest _nor_ the most convenient option available to him/her.
> For the occasional traveller (which I am now...maybe a day or two
> every few months), the option might make sense, since any other
> solution is either going to be more expensive (e.g., EVDO modem at
> $40/mo.) or more inconvenient (e.g., cellular dial-up into a 56K
> line). But, if $10/day hotel Wi-Fi isn't the best solution for a
> _regular_ business traveller (i.e., another option is *both* more
> convenient/faster *and* cheaper), why in the world is he/she justified
> in choosing the one that is more expensive *and* less convenient?
> That choice doesn't match up with *any* priority.
>
> > Some people decide that
> > staying at a hotel that has such prices is still worth it to them.
>
> Sure, but if that person is a business traveller whose expenses are
> ultimately borne by his company or client, that's wrong. If it's a
> personal choice, I have no beef -- people are free to spend their own
> money as wisely or foolishly as they prefer. But if my employees or
> my contractors are spending my company's money foolishly -- not
> effective enough to justify the cost -- I'm not going to support that.
>
> > If you don't have that opinion, that doesn't make them brainless, it just
> > makes them have different priorities than you.
>
> It's not a question of priorities when option A is *both* more
> expensive *and* less effective. There's no trade-off there -- it's
> just a bad option no matter what your priority is. Imagine you have
> three choices to get from the airport to the hotel: a $45 shuttle
> ride that takes 20 minutes, a $20 shuttle ride that takes 45 minutes,
> or a $45 shuttle ride that takes 45 minutes. The third option is
> sub-optimal no matter what your "priority" is. My argument is that
> for regular business travellers, costly hotel Wi-Fi is typically
> sub-optimal on both cost and convenience metrics, making it a bad
> choice no matter whether you are cost-conscious or
> convenience/time-conscious.
>
> > Calling someone brainless because they're priorities differ from yours
>
> As I said, their (not "they're") priorities aren't relevant when the
> choice isn't the best choice on any dimension. Maybe "brainless" was
> too harsh...lazy, apathetic, and ignorant are likely all valid
> explanations as well that probably explain as much of my own
> _personal_ choice behavior as anyone else's. But business decisions
> should be more rationalized and informed.
>
> To get back on topic a bit, does anyone know for sure whether Sprint's
> $15 Power Vision option will get you EVDO, or do you need the $25
> option? I'm still not clear on that.
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