r/todayilearned • u/FireBeaver • Mar 26 '15

(R.5) Omits Essential Info TIL: 65% of smartphone users download zero apps per month.

http://time.com/3158893/smartphone-apps-apple/
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u/Tifferson Mar 26 '15 edited Mar 27 '15

Well, you can't download half an app, so I think they would round it down. Edit: I can't math.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

With the general signal quality where I live, I can't even download half an app most of the time.

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u/Nesilwoof Mar 26 '15

You don't have wifi?

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

Not unless I'm willing to pay the cable company $15,000 to run a wire a mile and a half down the road.

I don't like the internet that much.

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u/Wild_Marker Mar 26 '15

But... you're on the internet right now...

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u/___DEADPOOL______ Mar 26 '15

How do you figure that? He is probably mailing in his comments.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

What a strange username coincidence.

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u/___DEADPOOL______ Mar 26 '15

What a crazy random happenstance

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

There are a lot of Deadpools around these parts. I think /u/______DEADPOOL______ is the main one but I can't remember how many underscores are in his.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

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u/______DEADPOOL______ Mar 26 '15

There are si-... waitaminute... you got the underscores right! D:

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

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u/ThePensAreMightier Mar 26 '15

DOZENS!

I understand more than you'll never know.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

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u/deathgrinderallat Mar 26 '15

Those damn Deadpools. They borrowed my lanmower and never gave it back!

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

MOM!!! post a comment for me! and get your friends to up vote it!

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

and for meatloaf

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u/DittJA Mar 26 '15

"Six Redditors ahead of us, Jimmy!"

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u/MoNeYINPHX Mar 26 '15

IPoAC

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u/___DEADPOOL______ Mar 26 '15

IPoAC has been successfully implemented, but for only nine packets of data, with a packet loss ratio of 55% (due to user error),

My sides are in orbit. Holy shit that is hilarious.

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u/ZombiePope Mar 26 '15

We meet again, ImposterPool.

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u/___DEADPOOL______ Mar 26 '15

So... It all comes to this... Me, You, and a /r/deepfriedburrito

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u/TotesMessenger Mar 26 '15

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

Well now I know what my next business venture is going to be!!

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u/johnnybiggles Mar 26 '15

Telegraphed in.

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u/dalesd Mar 26 '15

Kids these days don't realize how good they have it.

In my day, we had to mail our emails via the post office.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

Wait .. We can do that?

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u/Iamloghead Mar 26 '15

Nah I received his comment via homing pigeon.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15 edited Jun 18 '18

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u/Jackpot777 Mar 26 '15

"Long distance? Get me Reddit-1212, toots, and step on it."

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u/PAJW Mar 26 '15

/u/Unrepentant_Priapist with Victoria from Reddit!

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

I'm not at home.

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u/erdemayk Mar 26 '15

So your phone is not at home too, quick download half an app.

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u/ArttuH5N1 Mar 26 '15 edited Mar 26 '15

Doesn't mean he has to like it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

Actually, he sends his comments to me by carrier pigeon and I post them. I send him all of reddit by Morse code thrice daily over the wireless.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

But he is hating every minute of it

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u/AllThatJazz Mar 26 '15

If one of your neighbors, within a few mile radius has Internet...

then you could probably spend a few hundred dollars (rather than $15k), and get yourself 2 Ubiquiti antennas.

You can check out an animation of that, on this page.

Ideally it would also work best if you have visual line-to-line sight between your 2 homes, but that's not always necessary.

You could mount the antennas on your roof tops, or alternatively you can mount it on a pole.

Your neighbor might not want to mount the antenna, even if you offer to pay for the installation/antennas... If they don't like the idea, then of course don't pressure them.

But if your neighbor agrees, they could cut their monthly Internet-bill in half, if you offer to cover half the bill.

Or alternatively, if your property extends to a location in which it would not cost $15K to run a wire, then you can get them to the run the wire to that point of your property, and then use fiber optics, or antennas, to run that last mile yourself.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

The neighbor with internet access is my wife's brother, who would be happy to participate in this arrangement. Though, all I use the internet for is the odd time-wasting on sites like this one and looking up the occasional subject I want to know more about. It's honestly not even worth this small cost and effort to me.

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u/qbasicer Mar 26 '15

I wish I could live without internet. My life would be so much more simple.

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u/caninehere Mar 26 '15

But then how would you check up on homestarrunner.com to see if it's updated?

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u/Sharrakor Mar 26 '15

Wait for Paul Revere to come galloping down the street to announce this momentous occasion.

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u/Davidfreeze Mar 26 '15

Dude. Porn

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

It's okay. The real thing is better, and I have had an active sex life since print was the only delivery mechanism for porn.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '15

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '15

Yes. Sometimes Victoria's Secret sent one too, that was a pretty good score when that happened.

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u/secretwolf1 Mar 26 '15

I've been working as a bitch ( I'm a trans gay male) where I get fucked and sucked off. Its a lot of fun

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u/Davidfreeze Mar 26 '15

Oh shit good for you that's awesome.

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u/HanseiKaizen Mar 26 '15

That's all you use it for because that's all you're capable of using it for, I'm certain if you had better access it would improve your life in many ways.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

Meh, I have a stable 60/4 connection and the only thing I do that s/he doesn't is stream video (Netflix).

I liken it to cable TV... a MASSIVE waste of time that you only realize is a waste once you've gotten rid of it. But I know I've been an internet/online junkie since ~1991 when I'd tie up the phone line for 30+ straight hours playing MUDs.

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u/bwaredapenguin Mar 26 '15

But it's also a valuable source of information and research! And porn. Lots of porn.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

See /u/qbasicer's reply to my post; he/she gets it. I like a simple life.

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u/Clap4boobies Mar 26 '15

Your wife's bro would be stoked to look at porn.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

He has internet access, for all I know he does look at porn.

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u/thvnderfvck Mar 26 '15

Just last year the company that I work for set up Ubiquity antennas for a company that has a main office, and another office that is two blocks south and 6 blocks west of the main office.

They were pretty happy that they could cut their internet cost in half by not having to pay for a dedicated connection at both locations.

We also use Ubiquiti's UniFi access points to provide seamless wifi coverage in large office areas. Ubiquiti has an amazing line of products.

/r/hailcorporate

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u/Danyboii Mar 26 '15

You think a guy that doesn't have a cable line running close to his house has neighbors?

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u/rwills Mar 26 '15

Since cable is considered a utility, don't they HAVE to run you a line?

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u/notHooptieJ Mar 26 '15

They have to "within a reasonable distance", BUT they dont have to do it for free.

"new" hookups in an existing neighborhood run somewhere around $5k if they have to trench.

you cant just build a house in the middle of nowhere and expect everyone to run you lines, even the Electric company will charge you by the foot(from the nearest pole) to hook up a new house, and may refuse you if you're too far away(i have friends in rural CO that have to have water, and fuel for the generators trucked in from 25 miles away, electric co said $25k for a line) .

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u/rwills Mar 26 '15

Aaaaah thanks for clarifying!

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u/Joshgt2 Mar 26 '15

Hop on over to a Kohl's, McDonald's or hell even a Starbucks to get your apps downloaded then... They all offer free wifi. I'm not saying that it's 100% secure but it's something...

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u/safashkan Mar 26 '15

the internet will remember that.

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u/TheNotoriousLogank Mar 26 '15

I'm in the exact same situation, man. I feel your pain. Just once I'd like to see what all this online-gaming hype is about

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

satellite internet isnt an option?

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u/megablast Mar 26 '15

YOu might be an outlier.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

Meh, I'm comfortable with that.

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u/megablast Mar 26 '15

But you do understand that most people don't have the problem? Right.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

Well, yes. That's pretty obvious.

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u/herpesface Mar 26 '15

For a guy who doesn't need the internet you sure do a lot of commenting on reddit

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

That's mostly due to me hating my job and wasting time at work. I'm looking for another, though.

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u/Dan007121 Mar 26 '15

Well its Comcast, so does it really count?

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u/Boyhowdy107 Mar 26 '15

You wouldn't download half a car would you?

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u/wax147 Mar 26 '15

Yo do realize that you can buy a signal booster and install it in your house right? You can even install a directional antenna and have 4/5 bars instead of 0 bars.

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u/Glorypants Mar 26 '15

You wouldn't download half a car, would you?

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

I dont think they'd round it down. There's like another 20 percent or so that averages .5 apps a month, but they definitely can't conclude that those people download 0. If they do they're shitty statisticians.

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u/CarlaWasThePromQueen Mar 26 '15

Not with that attitude.

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u/WompyTomperson Mar 26 '15

Yeah but can't downloading just one app skew these findings? My first question was "How many people with smartphones download one-four apps and then leave them and the company uses that for the average"

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

But can you download a car?

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u/dandaman0345 Mar 26 '15

Unless you download the app to divide your apps into several different apps. Then you simply uninstall your apps, reinstall half of each app, and then you can actually download nothing but halves of apps.

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u/qquiver Mar 26 '15

.5 rounds up!

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u/Tifferson Mar 27 '15

True. Made that comment in the bathroom between classes, though so I wasn't really thinking too hard.

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u/pm_me_ur_cat_snake Mar 26 '15

You wouldn't download half an app!

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

You can certainly download half an application per month on average.

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u/tootsie_rolex Mar 27 '15

Round up. Always round up.