I love Apple too... but they're going to need to spend a lot more than $450 million to get a Starlink competitor. If they doubled their initial investment every year starting now it'd take 8 years for them to surpass where Starlink is today... IF Space X decided to launch their birds at cost (why would they do that?)...

Apple has the capital to buy Space X outright, with their loose change but that's not what we're talking about here, is it?

As it sits today and the foreseeable future there is zero comparability between the two offerings.

Amazon wants to build a comparable network but I'll reserve judgement until they get their first bird in the sky.

If you think the $450 million Apple invested to use Globalstar's 25 satelite network will directly compete with the $80 billion invested to build Starlink 3300+ satelite network, I don't know what more to say to you.

At best, the low bitrate emergency messaging/location feature Apple's investment gave the Globalstar network a post-Starlink reason to exist.

Globalstar's market cap is under 2 billion dollars. Investors can thank Apple its still worth anything at all.

You're right about one thing though. Someone on this thread has no idea what they're talking about.

I’ll wait here while you slowly wait for GlobalStar to orbit more than their existing 25 satellites. Space X puts up about two GlobalStars per Falcon launch. 😆

No. They won’t. Starlink can do what GlobalStar can do. GlobalStar can’t do what Starlink can.

No they aren’t. This satellite feature is extremely low bandwidth. Starlink is measured in hundreds of megabits. Both use satellites, that’s where the similarity ends.