I don't think anyone in this thread is actually a target audience for Stadia. I got into the Geforce Now beta and barely used it at first, and when Im at home still dont really use it. But for when Im on the road, I can use it on my 2 in 1 thin Laptop and play games @1080P 60 FPS and the latency really isnt terrible. I mean I'm not going to win any FPS tournaments on it but It works like a charm 95% of the time otherwise.
Stadia is going to be for people like my friends kids who play Roblox on a potato Dell who only know about sub 20 fps gaming. Not for us "adults" who can buy mid to top end graphic cards for 400 dollars a year. I just sold a bunch of Dell Optiplex 790 pcs for about 40-60 bucks a piece to people buying em for their kids. I managed to get LoL working on one at 720p 50-60 Fps 1080 was sub 30 fps. With Stadia it wouldnt matter though.
I have never wanted a Chromebook and to me its useless I mean they are so underpowered, and have so many restrictions, that I just never saw a point. And while they might not be a huge market share they seem to be doing ok, I mean they still sell them and stuck around.
The point is Google is going to integrate this into as many TVs/Phones/Browsers it can, not to sell to us but to sell it to parents that dont want to spend extra on consoles or computers. Just like how Netflix is basically on everything including some smart fridges.
As for the caps Im sorry to hear you have to deal with that but I have Spectrum/Charter here and while they have a cap in the stuff you sign but its never enforced, and when I lived in Seattle I had Comcast and Frontier neither of them had caps either, Nor Comcast in San Diego, when I had them. I know when I was working at Charter (Before Spectrum) there would be places, usually not major areas, that they would "Test" data caps. But that was only places that had really had no other options for internet it was Charter or Dial up/DSL/Satalite.
When/If 5G becomes available, or Musks Low orbit Network idea, I think we will see a major shift. But until then no, cable pays lawmakers to much to make laws forbidding municipal services and most of the way the laws are written for a competitor to come in would cost too much overhead (Since they cant use existing poles, they would have to use their own) that its basically a monopoly.
This is sort of why getting internet as a title II would have helped because the government could have forced them to lease lines to competitors. Like what happened to the phone companies.
I know for a fact I dont have a cap, Ive downloaded my entire steam library, most of my PS3 collection, and PS4 collection in the span of a week and thats at least 12 TB of data. When I got one of those 8TB WD Externals from BestBuy Black Friday deals and a few 2 TB drives for PS3/4 upgrades.
1 TB seems sort of low for anything other than a single person. 1080p Netflix show is about 3Gb/hr, 4k is 7-11 Gb/hr. I could see a small family eating through that quickly.
