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AsGryffynn on 21 March 2019
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shikamaru317 said:
EricHiggin said:

You would think they could charge more to the urban customers who get the first crack at the upgrades, and use that to offset the extra installation cost for most if not all of the rural customers who would always get served second and have to wait. Crazy idea I know.

It's almost as if MS would actually like for people to be able to use that cloud thing they're always talking up eh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_(satellite_constellation) 

Tesla is also working on Starlink, a low orbit satellite program.

"Starlink satellites would orbit at ​1⁄30 to ​1⁄105 of the height of geostationary orbits, and thus offer more practical latencies of around 25 to 35 ms, comparable to or exceeding existing cable or fiber networks."

"In November 2018, SpaceX received US approval to deploy 7,518 broadband satellites, in addition to the 4,425 satellites that were approved earlier."

You would think. They are already charging a ton to urban customers as it is, seeing some of the other posts in this thread, in many other countries people pay like $40 a month for speeds that are faster than I'm getting paying Comcast $80 a month. It's a total ripoff, they are just pocketing that money and getting rich instead of reinvesting it to improve their technology and bring access to rural areas. 

Yeah, Starlink also has promise, I agree. There is also the 5G rollout coming as a possibility for bringing high speed internet access to everybody, though the government would likely need to step in and force the carriers to get rid of data caps for it to become a primary internet source for people. 5G frequencies move so fast that there is just 1ms of lag, the download speed of 5G should be 100 mbps or more at release with the possibility of exceeding 1 gbps eventually (plenty fast for game streaming), and 5G signals have greater range than 4G so they can get enough subscribers in rural areas to cover the costs of putting towers into rural areas. 

 

Machiavellian said:
shikamaru317 said:

Looks meh if it is real. It is just a current S without a disc drive, I don't even think it is smaller than the current S (which is 13x10). Really disappointed with everything about this, from the name to the design. 

What they should have done:

Name- Xbox One D (D for digital)

Design- Redesigned to get rid of the 50/50 look and go with a more uniform, sleeker look

Size- 8x8 or 9x9, achieved with removal of the disc drive and a die-shrink on the chipset

Redesign kind of defeats the purpose of this device.  Its evident that MS isn't trying to make some super small all digital device but instead make a very cheap digital device.  What will really define this device is its price.  Sell it at 50 bucks with year sub of game pass I believe would sell this baby like hot cakes.

That's the Ninty way of doing things. This XBO would essentially be an overpowered Apple TV though.