Originally Posted by
gtpointer DeRusset:
I'm going to drop a lot of points because the discussion is becoming lengthier and lengthier and it's getting out of control :p
Appealing to government and enterprise isn't exactly panning out well is it. For some reason people seem to have interpreted "people who want to get things done quickly" (henceforth "quick people") as corporate. It's a far broader category than that, and yes, it includes people who want to get their web-browsing done quickly, so a few extra "milliseconds" (it is more than that in reality) will be important.
As you say, truncation and compression were original due to bandwith constraints, and now the usefulness of them with expensive data is becoming apparent. However, it will never be a reason why an average consumer, not even an average "quick person" will make it their deciding factor for buying a phone. The group of people whose primary concern in choosing a phone is data consumption is a very small subgroup of quick people. In many ways that's probably a good thing, as concern over data consumption would have left us all on dial-up and not be able to watch HD movies instantly over the web. Most BB users have a small data bill not through data compression but through the fact the phone doesn't lend itself to data consumption.
I don't want to get rid of the NOC, I just want BIS to be overhauled. It just isn't consumer friendly enough at the moment, and RIM needs to be far more consumer friendly with BB10 if it wants to re-establish itself (as an example of this, as you suggest there could be an option for email truncation, but the default setting should be full emails, and the option to change it should be buried somewhere no average consumer should find it).