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Get bought out by military control grid --> Instantly kill popular consumer devices.

• lxgr 9mo ago
  Happened to my Iridium satellite messenger (for peace of mind when hiking) too... Fortunately, there are several consumer/civilian alternatives to these. I guess anything that's useful to regular hikers is potentially also useful to the armed, abroad type of hiker, and these are usually better funded, so I can see why startups like these would pivot.
• gh02t 9mo ago
  It's unfortunate, GoTenna was (still is) pretty cool. Beartooth is similar and you can just buy them, but they unfortunately still have military-level pricing for what is pretty simple hardware. Though in their defense, I'm not sure GoTenna was ever "popular." Probably not enough to pay the bills, given their pivot.