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Re:Starlink now over 1M user terminals manufactured by justapassenger on Sunday September 25, 2022 @05:48PM (#32976679)
You do realize that in terms of speed it makes 2G look like a dream?

It’s only good for emergencies.

And anyway it was mostly just a publicity stunt, announcing non existing feature (no satellites in orbit are able to do it) to preempt Apple by few days, and them rolling out working product this year.

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Re:Starlink now over 1M user terminals manufactured by cma on Sunday September 25, 2022 @06:35PM (#32977082)
"The public tends to respond to precedents and superlatives," is one of his main quotes. At some point I think he figured out it doesn't even need to be released first to get the precedent credit.
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Re:Starlink now over 1M user terminals manufactured by justapassenger on Sunday September 25, 2022 @06:45PM (#32977170)
Or released at all. Elon does a lot of cool stuff but generates even more vaporware.
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Re:Starlink now over 1M user terminals manufactured by supernovae on Sunday September 25, 2022 @09:40PM (#32978407)
You do realize how valuable this is right? Spot trackers are much worse and cost much more and offer a fraction of the service.
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