Marco Arment

But anyway, uh,

Yeah, mobile hotspots, what amazing capability in such crappy electronic devices.

So like the monthly rates for Starlink are a lot lower than they used to be.

But a 5G hotspot is still cheaper though.

The other thing that I will advocate for 5G hotspots, which is way better than tethering, is that...

When you have a hotspot like in your backpack and you open up your laptop.

It's ready.

Yeah, because the hotspot is broadcasting a Wi-Fi network.

So it's like Wi-Fi.

So when you open up your laptop, it's online.

Like just immediately, it's on.

It's really nice.

Like that's, you know, it's, you know, the boot up time for the hotspot is not great, as I was saying, if it isn't on.

But if you're like going in and out of stuff all day and you have one in your bag that's just sitting there on all day.

It's like all of your devices are on Wi-Fi all the time.

So it also helps, for instance, if you have some other device that needs Wi-Fi, like if you have a Kindle, if you have a remarkable tablet, any other kind of device, if you have one of these stupid new AI gadgets, if you have anything like that,

if you have a hotspot on your person somewhere, those things are just online always.

So it's, it actually is like, it scales well in terms of if you have multiple devices or if you're again, traveling with fame, like you were saying, traveling with family, everybody has their own devices.

They don't probably all have cellular plans.

Um, like, like your kids, iPads and everything, you know, that's not going to have cellular plans, but like if you just have a thing where everyone is just,