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

submitted 1 year ago by digidude23@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch

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[–] opp0rtunist@alien.top 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This should stay free. Apple should swallow the cost.

It’s one of those things fairly unique on iPhone and it would just be bad optics to say “oh, sorry. your phone will have this life-saving software disable if you don’t pay up”

[–] Direct_Card3980@alien.top 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah the first time someone dies because they haven’t paid their Apple subscription will look very bad.

[–] JJsjsjsjssj@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

But plenty of people died before this was a thing, and plenty of people have died after they introduced it because they didn't have the latest iPhone or because they have an Android. This is a non-argument. No one would take this headline seriously. How would it even come to be? Would journalists check every person that dies from that point on, and try and discover if they could have been subscribed to this service?