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Knowing how well the Amazon Fire store was managed, I am foreseeing a future of fake apps and malware. Of course, I may be wrong, but unless any of this regulation has language for safeguards, then I’ll watching very carefully. 

I’m all for right to repair, but I fear that simply ignoring the iCloud lock would likely increase the risk of theft?

s.metcalf said:

I hope other countries are planned.  Australia in particular has vast areas without cellular coverage.

They probably are, but there may be some regulatory hurdles to deal with and possibly satellite positioning issues, since I don’t know if Globalstar’s satellites are geostationary? 

williamh said:

This is a pretty amazing feature that I expect will always be a money loser.  I thought Apple was relying entirely on an existing service and simply building in the antennas and software to access it.  Although all owners of new iPhones can take comfort in having this rescue feature available, hardly anyone should need to use it, thankfully.

I think the plan is to charge for it in the future (at least there is discussion on that). Also, this may be a way of experimenting with satellite technology, to eventually use them for voice communication? As the technology improves, partly motivated by this new application, others will want part of the pie and will want push to create new uses.

In many ways PDF is the new Postscript, so it is just probably moving more people to convert PS & EPS to PDF? In fact I wonder how many people still use these format everyday?