Why “Internet After Landing” Is a Bad Default

There’s a small real-world problem I kept running into while traveling. Not dramatic. Not a disaster. Just annoying enough that I started thinking about it like a product problem. You land in a new country, open your phone, and suddenly the basic things don’t work smoothly. Maps take too long to load. Messages don’t send right away. Ride apps keep spinning. Airport Wi-Fi wants some login page that barely opens. It feels like a bad onboarding flow. The user has arrived, but the system is not read