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Apple extends Emergency SOS via satellite for an additional free year (www.apple.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [B] to c/apple@hardware.watch
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[–] [B] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Also posted this elsewhere in this thread. With Garmin you pay €19.99 for this per month*. That is almost as expensive as all of Apple One. Probably Apple can let scale play in their favor, but offering satellite coverage is not a rounding error.

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* https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=Z0mdgyBwqaAHP4QLy78UcA

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    With Garmin you pay €19.99 for this per month

    With Garmin you pay ~$20/mo for a very different service. I use inreach to send and receive text messages to family when I'm offroading. I can send them locations I'm at, casual chats, and check in that I'm OK.

    I fully expect Apple to offer these same things soon, but for now inReach has a different value prop that's a lot better.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    I'm keeping my inreach + subscription because it's my redundancy in case my phone shits the bed.

    For the purpose of an emergency rescue out in the bush, I'd prefer something a lot more robust than a smartphone.

    The inreach is built like a tank and the battery just doesn't die.

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