People will vote with their wallets, they did with Adobe. There are plenty of better alternatives like Krita which are free and open source. That said, their target audience isn’t hobbyists, students and etc. Their target audience is corporations who integrated it into their workflow. Just from those corporations,…

You are comparing professional use to hobby/student use. For professional use it is nothing, but for hobbyists, students and etc, it is painful. Even more so as you start going outside richer states or countries.

Photo and art programs like GIMP and Krita, while being somewhat less user friendly, are free and open source

The cost of deploying such a network is relatively cheap compared to any other option. And is actually affordable even for them. Do note a 1gbps single connection can cover an entire village.

The point was that you seem to have excluded the majority of humanity (who lives in the 3rd world) in what they would prefer when you talk from the position of your 1st world problem.

Pollute the skies how? There is no animals in space, no ecosystem is being destroyed. How is the sky being “polluted”?

The towers would cost much more.

Starship is not that long away, and prices of biomethane has been dropping. As production and demand increases, it leads to higher economies of scale which leads to lower costs.

Yes, it’s not an issue. Long range wifi can go over 1-2 miles, some can even cover 10 miles. There is also wimax and etc.

Space is open to anyone as long as they have permission from their country. The country bares the responsibility for anything launch from them based on the outer space treaty.

They can afford it just fine, it isn’t that expensive. Do remember, a 1gbps connection can provide decent internet to an entire village.

The internet is more than facebook and twitter, it is also access to KNOWLEDGE that can save millions of lives a year.

You are most definitely racist if you simply judge people based on where they were born.

We do, but we need something better than Hubble that is more modern. The problem with projects like hubble is due to the high cost of launching and the political difficulties of getting any projects approved plus the pork requirements. Any satellite we send up is overkill and by the time its up would already be…

Uhm, I think you don’t understand how mobile internet works. The mobile internet actually needs to connect to backbone providers to transmit information. Otherwise you are stuck with an intranet. Building towers and maintaining them isn’t cheap. Hell, even landlines are difficult to maintain in some places.

These satellites are too low to be a space debris problem. Even if you leave them alone, they will deorbit themselves in 5 years.

When they move to starship, it will use methane for launches. If they then use biomethane, the environmental impact would be minimal.

It isn’t. By nature since the LEO satellites go all over the world, it costs them absolutely nothing to cover 3rd world countries as they pass by.

But we are talking about 1gbps connections, which means if you have a building of 10 people, you can give them 100mbps connections are $8 each. An African village can get 100 people 10mbps connections for 80 cents each.

Norway isn’t really that great of an example to go of because: