TehFalcon t1_jdxd54l wrote on March 27, 2023 at 9:49 PM

Reply to comment by denislemire in My experience sharing my location via satellite in the wilderness with the iPhone 14 Pro by TevaHiker

You have no idea what’s going on behind the scenes 😂. More than one company can do the same thing buddy

GlobalStars current network is low speed, but they absolutely are gearing up to create a high speed network. This is good news, StarLink doesn’t need to be a monopoly.

denislemire t1_jdxf1cx wrote on March 27, 2023 at 10:02 PM

I’ll wait here while you slowly wait for GlobalStar to orbit more than their existing 25 satellites. Space X puts up about two GlobalStars per Falcon launch. 😆

TehFalcon t1_jdxhl3h wrote on March 27, 2023 at 10:21 PM

🙄 another elon hypebeast

denislemire t1_jdxjizx wrote on March 27, 2023 at 10:35 PM

If you think the $450 million Apple invested to use Globalstar's 25 satelite network will directly compete with the $80 billion invested to build Starlink 3300+ satelite network, I don't know what more to say to you.

At best, the low bitrate emergency messaging/location feature Apple's investment gave the Globalstar network a post-Starlink reason to exist.

Globalstar's market cap is under 2 billion dollars. Investors can thank Apple its still worth anything at all.

You're right about one thing though. Someone on this thread has no idea what they're talking about.

TehFalcon t1_jdxjqcf wrote on March 27, 2023 at 10:36 PM

And that someone is you. That’s only apple’s first round of investment. Things don’t happen overnight. Keep being a shill for elons company though. StarLink was best to market by other Sat companies too :)

Apples Market Cap dwarfs spaceX’s ;)

denislemire t1_jdxl682 wrote on March 27, 2023 at 10:47 PM

I love Apple too... but they're going to need to spend a lot more than $450 million to get a Starlink competitor. If they doubled their initial investment every year starting now it'd take 8 years for them to surpass where Starlink is today... IF Space X decided to launch their birds at cost (why would they do that?)...

Apple has the capital to buy Space X outright, with their loose change but that's not what we're talking about here, is it?

As it sits today and the foreseeable future there is zero comparability between the two offerings.

Amazon wants to build a comparable network but I'll reserve judgement until they get their first bird in the sky.