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That's precisely the argument I heard from Nokia die-hards when they iPhone was introduced :-)

• gamblor956 6y ago
  This isn't a Nokia vs iPhone situation. Shipping already does everything that Starlink proponents claim Starlink will enable, i.e., track ships, track cargo, track temperatures in containers. And this data isn't like video, so you don't need a lot of bandwidth for it. Starlink might make things cheaper than current satellite communications offerings, but this is evolutionary not revolutionary.
  • briffle 6y ago
    And my blackberry could already run apps, browse the web, and send quick messages to each other years before the iphone.
    • ubercore 6y ago
      Not the same apps, though. In this comparison, it would be "my blackberry already runs iOS apps, but they're a bit slower than the new iphone". Improvement for sure, and I'd bet on StarLink making a lot of money on this by volume, but it's not going to radically change shipping.
    • krageon 6y ago
      To be fair, your iphone doesn't really do anything interesting past what your blackberry did. It's mostly network effects, which used to exist for blackberries and now exist for smartphones. What they're used for by most people is almost indistinguishable from what they used to be used for.
  • SkyPuncher 6y ago
    In another thread, someone suggested Viasat was costing between $20k and $50k per month. On a ocean going cargo ship, that is not that much relative to the other costs.
• ppf 6y ago
  Funny, I've just gone back to a Nokia.
• tinus_hn 6y ago
  No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.