It would be great if Amazon Prime included internet access. One time fee for the dish, works with all their in-home stuff.
Didn't FB try do this and scrapped the project?
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#22This is a business that Apple should get into as well. They have the capital and Phones+internet would have great vertical synergy.
What they don't have is the rockets. SpaceX has cheap reusable Falcon 9s. Blue Origin is aiming to have a cheap reusable New Glenn in 2021. Apple would have to go with much more expensive traditional launchers.
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#23It would be great if Amazon Prime included internet access. One time fee for the dish, works with all their in-home stuff. Didn't FB try do this and scrapped the project?
That was balloons
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#24So we'll be at ~20,000 satellites in orbit with this and Starlink. That's four times as many as are currently in orbit.
The question is what is the limit of LEO such that it causes problems for 1) astronomy such they even with knowledge of passing objects it still causes disruptions in images and 2) that we begin the slippery slope of trapping ourselves
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#25If you think this is anything other than post-capitalist market capture disguised as philanthropy, I have some bad news for you.
How is this disguised as philanthropy? He literally is quoted as "a very good business for Amazon"
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#26Would have liked a more substantive article on the subject...
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#28It would be great if Amazon Prime included internet access. One time fee for the dish, works with all their in-home stuff. Didn't FB try do this and scrapped the project?
As I recall Facebook tried to commandeer the “internet” for Indian citizens by provided a subset of the real internet.
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#29This is a business that Apple should get into as well. They have the capital and Phones+internet would have great vertical synergy.
What they don't have is the rockets. SpaceX has cheap reusable Falcon 9s. Blue Origin is aiming to have a cheap reusable New Glenn in 2021. Apple would have to go with much more expensive traditional launchers.
Why would Apple not be able to buy Falcon 9 launches? SpaceX is in the business of selling rocket launches.
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#30Gotta give it to them, Amazon is the only big tech company with a vision - the rest are just sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars in cash and no good ideas against which to deploy all those funds.
Google invested $900 million in SpaceX back in 2015 [1]. Not sure if that counts as "vision", but it seems like it was a smart way to get into this market early.
[1] https://spacenews.com/google-spacex-investment-is-900-millio...