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A comment on Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite network capacity. Parent comment

Re:Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite ... by closetohome on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @03:38PM (#32755602)
Apparently it works with Find My as well. I wouldn't be surprised if they started rolling out premium features that take more bandwidth once everybody's free two years expires.
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Re:Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite ... by bombcar on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @05:06PM (#32756876)
This is it right here! The "emergency" part is a feel-good on top of the real service, which is location updates every X time even when off in no cell service land.
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Re:Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite ... by manderley on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @06:39PM (#32758101)
"every X time" meaning as often as you're willing to point your phone at a satellite and wait a few minutes for your location to transmit?
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Re:Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite ... by bombcar on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @08:39PM (#32759464)
That I don’t know - I could see it trying to send a signal every five minutes and hoping some get through.
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Re:Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite ... by Brusco_RF on Thursday September 08, 2022 @11:53AM (#32767398)
I doubt it. Thats a great way to murder your battery in the wilderness
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Re:Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite ... by Melatonic on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @06:20PM (#32757855)
Yea this must be the main feature. And is pretty huge. The emergency thing is icing on the cake.

Unfortunately GlobalStar is probably one of the worst satellite constellations out there (that I know of at least) for actual communication (SPOT devices used or still use GlobalStar and are famously crap compared to Garmin inReach on Iridium). Of course it could be improved and they do have the bandwith licenses which is important.

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