Honestly I wouldn’t mind it being a post pay per use service if it’s under $50 per instance.

But I wouldn’t subscribe to it

How much effort would it be for them to add satellite phone service capability? In other words, making satellite phone calls? Obviously, you’d need a plan for that, but it’d be really cool to have that as an option.

It should be a free service if you subscribe to other Apple services.

Why need a subscription. Just make it so anyone can SOS via satellite and add that to the rescue bill. Even better if just pay a little more in tax for the FCC to mandate SOS via satellite.

Could you imagine crashing in a plane or hiking in a remote part of the world and your subscription just ended?

Putting safety behind a paywall at Apple’s level is the craziest thing I’ve ever read. Capitalists at Apple are wilder than I thought.

a handy feature but i would only subscribe to it if it was part of icloud or apple one sub.

It’s a trail? Who knew. I won’t be subbing unless it’s an Apple one throw in.

I guess I have this on my iPhone 14 but I haven’t needed it so it is invisible.

It might be more visible if I could use it to send iMsg (perhaps text only) via satellite when I’m off the cell grid for extended periods (which is rarely these days)

If they do start charging for it, they should make it an option where you can pay for it by the day/week/month. Only in the times where you think you could actually need to use the feature.

how much is this supposed to be after the free is over !!

Imagine the PR if someone died because they didn’t/forgot to renew their satellite subscription 💀

Seems like something I would buy if I was going on a backcountry hiking trip or if I knew I would be off grid.

Didn’t know you had to pay for it

There is no way I’m paying for the service once it’s not included. Someday on the side of a highway with no cell reception I may regret that decision but for today, No!