iPhone 14 Emergency SOS, Apple's MLS deal, Steve Jobs' television

When Steve Jobs said he'd solved television, it probably wasn't Apple TV+ he was thinking of. Yet this is the Apple of today, creating great dramas — and with the new Emergency SOS, preventing them too. All this, on this week's AppleInsider Podcast.

William Gallagher and Wesley Hilliard go in deep with Emergency SOS via satellite on the new AppleInsider podcast. Then they dive still deeper with MLS football — which apparently we must all call "soccer."

And then it's time to go really in depth with Apple TV+. It's become such a good service, and yet it's clearly not what Steve Jobs planned when he said he'd solved the problem of television.

There's no question, though, that he would surely applaud the new Emergency SOS via satellite that Apple launched this week for the US and Canada.

Yet, seriously, Apple is missing a trick here. Apple TV+ has no "ER," no "Grey's Anatomy," and no "St. Elsewhere." But Apple does now have Emergency SOS and surely there's a TV series in that.

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3 Comments

Madbum 2 Years · 536 comments

About 2 years ago

I tried the demo. The satellite connects pretty easily.

hope never need it but it’s a peace of mind

thank you Apple!

meanwhile, just hear Biden met with some ceos today who wants him to go after Apple. Basically competitors of Apple.

Is there anything more evil than the government?

chadbag 13 Years · 2029 comments

Just a note that the word “soccer” comes from Britain and is derived from “association football”.

AppleZulu 8 Years · 2205 comments

Madbum said:

I tried the demo. The satellite connects pretty easily.

hope never need it but it’s a peace of mind

thank you Apple!

meanwhile, just hear Biden met with some ceos today who wants him to go after Apple. Basically competitors of Apple.
Is there anything more evil than the government?

1) Satellites exist in the first place because of government leadership and investment, and 2) most of the Globalstar satellites used for this service were launched by government rocket agencies, and 3) the rest were launched by private rocket companies that only exist because of government contract work. Also, 4) the SOS service only functions because the iPhone first establishes the user's location by way of GPS, a technology provided 100% by government resources. Not sure if the unsourced story about Biden meeting with "basically competitors of Apple" is true, but taking it at face value, it would seem that 5) the CEOs who want Biden to "go after Apple" (whatever that means) are the ones being evil. All Biden is doing in that scenario is meeting with them and hearing what they want.

So based on all that, I would imagine the answer to your question is yes, there are things more evil than the government.

P.S. Next time you log onto the internet to remark about how inherently evil the government is, you might want to read up on the ARPANET first.