From back when I bothered looking at my phone bills, my average monthly usage in SF was about 100MB/month with the iPhone/AT&T combo (and WiFi on and heavily leveraged) and 700MB/month with the Pre/Sprint combo (and WiFi turned off to prove a point).

This is probably the trick I needed. But why does it need to be so obscure.

Online video didn’t really solve an corporate problems like blacbkerry or email did. It did allow the masses to express themselves through a new medium, and thus youtube. Do you consider hulu.com a corporate use or a home-use?

As for the larger VDI question: again, what problems are solved by SaaS VDI? are those problems bigger in the enterprise or at home? Which companies are selling into which markets? and how much are the markets worth? And are they executing well?

There are the usual external factors too. As far as web access goes, I’d say that for a long time, it was only available to people while at work, since the connection was expensive and infrastructure to make it available at home (dsl/cable) was immature. So regardless of the fact that it does now solve many problems in both domains, the availability/cost of it was what caused it to spread in a particular way.

I bet there are still lots of people out there that don’t really have any significant internet access at home, and just use it when they get to work.

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