▲ 97 ▼ Apple extends Emergency SOS via satellite for an additional free year for existing iPhone 14 users (www.apple.com) submitted 2 years ago by LazaroFilm@lemmy.world to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world 40 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee -5 points 2 years ago (2 children) Of course the Lemmy user thinks the service that costs money to run should be free. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world [S] 4 points 2 years ago Siri costs money and is free. This is a feature you don’t use unless you’re in an emergency situation. I would be okay to pay for it but not as a subscription as they were hinting. permalink fedilink source parent [–] randombullet@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (2 children) Oh like the GPS system? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago GPS is a US military system entirely payed for by taxpayers, that just spams out pings to any device listening. Civilian end users can’t transmit to it. And it wasn’t freely available to civilians for years, until the Korean Airlines Flight 007 was shot down in 1993 by the Soviets due to a navigational error causing them to drift into Soviet airspace. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago That's not funded by a private company, it's taxpayer funded. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world [S] 4 points 2 years ago Siri costs money and is free. This is a feature you don’t use unless you’re in an emergency situation. I would be okay to pay for it but not as a subscription as they were hinting. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] randombullet@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (2 children) Oh like the GPS system? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago GPS is a US military system entirely payed for by taxpayers, that just spams out pings to any device listening. Civilian end users can’t transmit to it. And it wasn’t freely available to civilians for years, until the Korean Airlines Flight 007 was shot down in 1993 by the Soviets due to a navigational error causing them to drift into Soviet airspace. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago That's not funded by a private company, it's taxpayer funded. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago GPS is a US military system entirely payed for by taxpayers, that just spams out pings to any device listening. Civilian end users can’t transmit to it. And it wasn’t freely available to civilians for years, until the Korean Airlines Flight 007 was shot down in 1993 by the Soviets due to a navigational error causing them to drift into Soviet airspace. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago That's not funded by a private company, it's taxpayer funded. permalink fedilink source parent