Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength
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Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength
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Re: Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength
#2You know, I don't recall ever seeing 1 bar of signal strength on a smartphone. And once it's down to 2 bars, it barely works, if at all.
Human brains: wow, what a bunch of suckers. Damn.
By the way, is it legal to be deceptive in this way?
Re: Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength
#3There's a part of me that thinks there's perhaps a logical and reasonable explanation, I just can't think of one.
Re: Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength
#4this is the difference between selling a technology and selling a product
Re: Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength
#5You know, I don't recall ever seeing 1 bar of signal strength on a smartphone. And once it's down to 2 bars, it barely works, if at all. Human brains: wow, what a bunch of suckers. Damn. By the way, is it legal to be deceptive in this way?
> You know, I don't recall ever seeing 1 bar of signal strength on a smartphone.
I do.
I'm from Germany, land of perpetual EDGEing. Highest total GDP in the EU but can't build a mobile network for the life of it.
Then again we somehow forgot how to run trains and build cars without cheating, so I guess it fits.
Want to see a single bar? Come visit, our carriers aren't on the list with that inflate flag enabled. I guess they didn't get the same memo as the car manufacturers ;D
Re: Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength
#6That is a tricky one. I caught myself comparing bars to a friend’s phone before wondering if changing carriers would give me better signal in a certain area.
Re: Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength
#7I wonder if it’s more intuitive that way.
Like what Apple does with stopwatch.
https://lukashermann.dev/writing/why-the-iphone-timer-displa...
Re: Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength
#8How can one hide from git blame?
Re: Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength
#9You know, I don't recall ever seeing 1 bar of signal strength on a smartphone. And once it's down to 2 bars, it barely works, if at all. Human brains: wow, what a bunch of suckers. Damn. By the way, is it legal to be deceptive in this way?
I see it all the time driving through the country. Probably a dozen times just today driving through the american east coast. I agree that two bars is the bare minimum for any functionality though.
Re: Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength
#10I wonder if it’s more intuitive that way. Like what Apple does with stopwatch. https://lukashermann.dev/writing/why-the-iphone-timer-displa...
This is just rounding to nearest instead of down or up, not statically adding a whole interval (as the author realizes in an addendum).