What is Google Fi and what does it mean for Android & iOS equipment?
Someone in m.p.m.i mentioned they use "Fi" so I looked it up since I live in the mountains above Google's Mountainview HQ...
That page (and the four that fall below is) is so full of Marketing BS that it rivals those of Apple MARKETING. It's actually difficult to read, it's so disgustingly MARKETING oriented.
Nonetheless, watching the annoying video, it says Google partnered with the hardware phone makers and the carriers to create a network solution.
That they *start* with "finding trains" is disconcerting (who gives a shit about trains - I haven't been on a train in thirty years) and the *next* value is "streaming* your favorite songs (again, who gives a shit since you can *download* any song you want for free in seconds and songs don't take up any space percentagewise).
Listening further in the video, there is a line saying "prices that make sense" (um, ok - I like that, but prices for what?) and then "tech that just works" (heh heh ... we've heard *that* before)... what that means is it's likely *limited* like you can't believe - and always will mean that.
Yikes! That's it? That is Fi? It ends with "Join us". Holy cow.
That is fi? Naaaaaaah. Can't be. It didn't say *anything* anyone actually cares about. (trains? streaming songs?)
Whenever anyone says "it just works", what they mean is "morons love this stuff because it doesn't actually do anything MARKETING hasn't scripted for you!".
So, um, what is Fi?
Going *back* to the web page, the header line says it's "A new way to say hello".
Uh, ok. That's pretty useless. New isn't better. It's just different. Or, maybe it's not even different. Being new is meaningless. Saying "hello" a new way is probably just as meaningless.
Reading on, Fi has four parts: a. The Network b. The Plan c. The Experience d. The Phones
Jeezus. Can't they just *say* what the f**c it is? Anyway, this is long so I'll take it up in another post.