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That quote is disingenuous in the extreme. You absolutely can not track a $100 smartphone in the middle of the Indian ocean, for any price.
by 0xffff2 11y ago
That quote is disingenuous in the extreme. You absolutely can not track a $100 smartphone in the middle of the Indian ocean, for any price.
- melling 11y agoThat's Bloomberg's comment not mine. Not sure where the sudden need to downvote is coming from. My point is that it's now a free service to track planes. It was possible to track MH370, for example, but it required a fee.
- 0xffff2 11y agoYeah, I know what quotation marks mean... My point is that the quote makes it seem much easier to track an airplane than it actually is. It's great that Inmarsat is providing the service for free now, but the quote makes it seem like the service is trivial to provide when it really isn't.
- hluska 11y agoYour comment would be better if you weren't so aggressive.
- jsprogrammer 11y agoCurious, what language did the poster uses that implies aggression? I see none.
- gherkin0 11y ago> Curious, what language did the poster uses that implies aggression? I see none. This: "Yeah, I know what quotation marks mean..." It comes off as snappy.
- melling 11y agoHyperbole in the news happens all the time. At any rate, the quote is also inaccurate because according the May 2014 article that I posted, we have been able to track a jet for free for almost 2 years. I wasn't trying to start a discussion about how easy or hard one of them is.
- tim333 11y agoWell, they didn't say in the ocean. You need a $250 gizmo for that http://www.amazon.com/Delorme-AG-009871-201-DeLorme-inReach-SE/dp/B00BX7TJ2O/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1455701948&sr=8-3&keywords=satellite+phone http://www.amazon.com/Delorme-AG-009871-201-DeLorme-inReach-...