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And sadly North America only.
by yreg 4y ago
And sadly North America only.
- alwillis 4y agoFor now. I’m sure it’s on the roadmap everywhere it’s allowed.
- yreg 4y agoI wonder what will be the rollout order. I guess I would most like to have this in the countries that are usually the last to receive Apple feature support.
- Analemma_ 4y agoIt's not a pure software feature and seems like it needs tons of "boots on the ground" support in terms of cooperation from local emergency services. So I'm guessing it will be first/only in developed countries with high state capacity.
- kylehotchkiss 4y agoThere’s a handful of countries where you’ll be arrested if caught with a satellite communications device so keeping it NA only is probably just as much apple trying to not present this as trying to force the feature on the world (yet)
- gregsadetsky 4y agoWow. I didn't know this. Makes (tragic) sense from a censorship perspective, obviously. https://blog.telestial.com/2017/11/countries-where-satellite-phones-banned-or-restricted/ https://blog.telestial.com/2017/11/countries-where-satellite...