The odd thing to me is that these guys live in San Francisco (I met most of them a few years ago). Wi-Fi is not ubiquitous here, Google Fiber will never be deployed here and most of the city only has Comcast as a real option. Their service is as good as their reputation would lead you to expect. Nextbit should know first hand that the world is not a well connected mesh of low latency, high bandwidth, and quota free connections.<p>The idea of loading what the phone thinks you&#x27;ll need into its local storage is intriguing, and people keep trying to make it work to varying degrees. I don&#x27;t think it has ever, or can ever, work simply because of the massive constraints it puts on usage. Even if the phone is right 99% of the time, the first time I need to use Google Maps and its been &quot;uploaded&quot; off of my phone, it&#x27;s going in the trash. Just the thought that such a thing might happen and be beyond my control makes me disinclined to give it a shot (not that I would ever own an Android phone anyway, so no sale lost).<p>I think that devices that try to anticipate the user&#x27;s wishes and plan ahead, but which may make decisions that have negative consequences, violate the user&#x27;s trust. I expect technology to do what I have asked it to do -- in this case, I asked it to store something and it thought better of that.<p>I don&#x27;t really understand their cloud storage model either. 100GB on S3 for 3 years is $99 -- not counting bandwidth and EC2 instances, which is what really racks up the bill. People aren&#x27;t going to use their entire allotment all the time, but this ongoing cost is going to sink the company.