• @joelfromaus@aussie.zone
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    411 months ago

    Is the satellite function free to use? I haven’t read into it and it’s super convenient for its use cases but also seems like it would cost a lot to maintain contracts and backend for the feature.

        • @Nogami@lemmy.world
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          -111 months ago

          TLDR. There’s no pricing after 2 years yet.

          Probably get 2 years with every phone purchase. I’d have no problem subscribing to it regardless.

          I have a family and little kids. I’d never even consider not paying for a service like that if it could save our lives.

          • @traveler@lemdro.id
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            211 months ago

            My wild guess is that it will be integrated into an iCloud subscription. So you can only use it if subscribed to iCloud.

            • @Nogami@lemmy.world
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              -211 months ago

              I would think it would be nominal.

              Stories like this are marketing gold and all it would take is one “Apple charges $$$ per year and we decided not to pay it so all of my kids died” story to ruin all of those warm fuzzies.