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That would be great for the consumer but not exactly sustainable as a business plan. It doesn't look like the numbers are published, but I have to imagine that a large percentage of InReach subscribers never need to use the SOS functionality.
And apple is a 3 trillion dollar company where they profited 394 billion last year. Not every service released should have to return a profit for it to survive... an emergency service like this should be one of them. Just having it as an option alone improves the name brand, and that should be worth something. Instead, seeing them treat it as another cash grab only makes me hate them more.