In EU (the Netherlands) you can get 4G unlimited for phone for about 20$. I live with my friend hosts his own server for backups and home cinema.

For movies/tv shows/games we probably spend few TB a month.

I had never heard about such thing until now, it's ridiculous to have cap and I'm so glad that I don't have to live in such a place.

It is actually unlimited? Several companies in the United States offer "unlimited data" but throttle speeds after you use 50 GB~ so much that it is basically unusable.

Unlimited has to be unlimited by law. After 10gb of usage a day, you need to text a number (for free) to get a few more gb, and so on. That's just there to prevent flooding the network too much.

From what I have heard it depends on the mobile provider. Some have daily limit around 10+ GB. But that seems quite reasonable. I have monthly 10GB 4G for my phone and I have never hit it. I've heard stories after a screw up the mobile provider gave unlimited 4G for a year and the guy used it as his internet at his home.

So you mean universal application? That's how nuxt.js/next.js works

Yes I am aware of these technologies, and it's basically what I mean, in an abstract way

I had never even heard about this product until just now. I guess it was just too irrelevant.

Same. I watch Twitch and YouTube videos, too.

Germany passed an anti-terror law a few years ago, getting a phone number requires the same level of verification as opening a bank account.

Even before that prepaid phones have been a strawman argument, actually maintaining a 2nd number in the long run is quite a bit of work since it usually expires if you don't use it enough.

And then you typically need to do some kind of identity verification to activate it.

In Austria, Belgium & Germany you do, in Croatia & The Netherlands you don’t

Possible that's typical, but it's certainly not universal

Not in the UK you cant.

> To be fair, Apple already does this. If you buy a refurbished Apple device, you are essentially getting an iPhone with slightly worse packaging.

This is not the same, because the device will still be Apple with the same design and logo. But the article is making different point that if Apple would sell also yPhone with same technical specs and slightly different design and half the price then it would be outragous.

P.S. They are paying that price the same reason why they pay 20x more for university than Europeans. It is the system that they live in.

> if Apple would sell also yPhone with same technical specs and slightly different design and half the price then it would be outragous.

Would it? Companies do this all the time; it's called differential pricing.

> But the article is making different point that if Apple would sell also yPhone with same technical specs and slightly different design and half the price then it would be outragous.

iPhone SE?