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Apple extends Emergency SOS via satellite for an additional free year for existing iPhone 14 users (www.apple.com)

submitted 10 months ago by LazaroFilm@lemmy.world to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

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[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee -5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Of course the Lemmy user thinks the service that costs money to run should be free.

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months 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.

[–] randombullet@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Oh like the GPS system?

[–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months 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.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago

That's not funded by a private company, it's taxpayer funded.