LOL the car that Apple will never ever release as Tim thinks he is Steve Jobs when in fact he is more like Mr Bean in my view!
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Apple and Globalstar Rumored to Announce Satellite Connectivity Feature for iPhone 14 at September 7 Event
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I disagree. This is a useless idea and shows that Tim has none of his own and needs to go and go now!
One day we can replace AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and directly connect to Starlink ?
More options for consumers ?
I have 2 daughters in school, who drive 2 hours between school and home when they visit. The second I saw this was potentially happening I knew I was buying a handful of new phones.
Places I go where connectivity is an issue:
- Backpacking 3 times a year
- Vacationing in Vermont
- Living AT HOME (with Verizon, in a crowded suburb of Boston)
Catastropic events, when terrestrial infrastructure has literally disappeared.
E.g. during the flood in Germany last year, mobile base-stations, and fixed-line internet infrastructure were wiped out, literally.
It's not a big problem, usually - until you have it yourself....
Freedom of speech in the US means the gov't can't lock you up for things you say. It says nothing about private companies telling you to go away because you're a troll or because your behavior doesn't meet the community standards that they wish to establish.
Tim Cook's Apple makes 67% of its revenue from outside the US.
I'm guessing that your reception is generally good in most places that you go. This isn't the case for about 100 million Americans.
There obviously is a car. Thousands have been working on it for a decade. There’s a virtual mountain of evidence of its existence. You’re just like the people who were CERTAIN that Apple would never make a watch or a phone, because they’re existing competitive markets that Apple had no experience in.
Yep. Like seatbelts. Over decades, I have never needed the protection they can provide in a serious collision. Therefore seatbelts are dumb being only useful in edge cases.
Just gotta shake your head. Some people have stunted thinking abilities and imagination.
Weird, I thought of that exact thing too. I’m also thinking with this feature widespread, it’ll be difficult to tell fictional stories of people being lost in the woods, the desert, the mountains, on an island, or in the ocean. Because realistically, people will just be able to use this feature and get help.
Movies like Lost City, Castaway, Adrift (true story that wouldn’t have occurred), or the recent Netflix limited series Keep Breathing.
That number I’d guess is way off. But whatever is the amount of people who actually need the feature, a far, far larger amount will get peace of mind from it while driving or doing outdoor activities in areas with no service.
I live in the middle of a huge metropolitan area, and I do a lot of hiking in areas that do not have cellular coverage. This would be an extremely useful feature to me.
Apple utilizing short burst data like services... good joke... can only work with a propreitary solution.
iPhones are otherwise completely useless when it comes to low performance connections...
I remember very well when my BlackBerry 10 devices over EDGE were still usable. In fact EDGE was absolutely sufficient for stuff like email.
Meanwhile iOS apps often can't even connect over EDGE, let alone transmit any content.
"High speed data" would likely require quite substantial transmit power even to LEO satellites. 5W I think would be the bare minimum.
iPhones are otherwise completely useless when it comes to low performance connections...
I remember very well when my BlackBerry 10 devices over EDGE were still usable. In fact EDGE was absolutely sufficient for stuff like email.
Meanwhile iOS apps often can't even connect over EDGE, let alone transmit any content.
"High speed data" would likely require quite substantial transmit power even to LEO satellites. 5W I think would be the bare minimum.
It’s based ground technology.
Seems like most people here would love a emergency to test this new satellite feature out. Out of all features, this is nothing to be excited about. All phones will eventually have this anyway, another boring feature. It's definitely not useless but the majority of people will probably never need it.
Life-saving.. shhmife saving. No one asked for this. I've been waiting for new iMessage explosion effects, and new release of Emoji 16, which finally has Shaking Face and Pink Heart.. And they give me this satellite nonsense?
It would be anticompetitive to the carriers that don’t have satellites. The EU would require that Apple launch satellites to make it even. And provide the service for free.
