A corollary from William Gibson's famous quote, "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.", is that just because you're living in the future where you, and all your friends have smartphones, doesn't mean that everyone does.
In fact, there are huge swaths of people that don't even have broadband Internet access, even in the US, even using the FCC's antiquated definition of broadband of 2 Megabit. Meanwhile, I can get 20 Mbit with my cellphone on 4G LTE on a good day.
Be careful when extrapolating from things you don't use because it doesn't necessarily follow that others don't.
In fact, there are huge swaths of people that don't even have broadband Internet access, even in the US, even using the FCC's antiquated definition of broadband of 2 Megabit. Meanwhile, I can get 20 Mbit with my cellphone on 4G LTE on a good day.
Be careful when extrapolating from things you don't use because it doesn't necessarily follow that others don't.