I think you find art as you describe it in galleries not in pixel art collections.

And do we all actually care that much? No otherwise it would not be a breadless job.

We don't value artists they struggle financially and most do contract work and not their art.

I have a wide definition of “art”. Also, I think many of us do care, and those who don’t care perhaps should ask themselves more often why they find themselves appreciating something and not something else.

> We don't value artists they struggle financially and most do contract work and not their art.

True, but I also know artists who earned money from commissions. Unfortunately, I also know business owners who would commission such works previously but now would rather pay $5 to a big corporation for an image to be generated. Considering those models are based exactly on tons of those underpaid artists’ work, scraped without consent and licensing, it’s not a very great look.

You know exactly that I did not mean the 0.01% of artists.

We do it aligned as a mass phenomenon.

But still Taylor for sure makes good music but how many people really pay for art?

And then also art from a specific artist.

People pay for art, not always with money but always with priceless intangibles like admiration and recognition. In fact, these intangibles can even be mutually exclusive with money. That is why some artists would rather be poor than “sell out”.

A situation where you can make a living from art but maintain the original spirit that motivated you to do art has been pretty rare. Many would keep a dayjob or some business while doing art on the side, for example, or have patrons or a community of some kind that partly subsidizes their life.

Weirdly enough though.

It's super expensive, only a real option for emergencies and not a mass market.

Either they expect low orbit sat to be the next thing or it's a pure diversity topic because yeah what else should they do

Isn't low orbit sat what Starlink is?

Yes

But for high speed the smallest antenna is still centimeters wide.

Interesting. I wonder if you can space it out virtually by having several iPhone users stand near each other and form a virtual antenna?

I don't need to be able to stream 4k from the woods, but it would be nice to be able to download topo maps and such while hiking.

If it's only about the antenna you should be able to connect it with a cable and put it on a backpack

why would they?

It's already a fully integrated end-to-end communication device.

They don't know how to operate it, they don't care about millions of people complaining about shitty network, they don't have to handle internationalization and they would position themselves against whoever carrier is before/after at&t, Verizon and T-Mobile.

They make huge margins by making hardware. This type of margin is not happening at carriers.

And no just because companies like Verizon do have daughters in other countries they are not global. So apple would also need to expand to all countries.

I only see a lot of downsides and not a single upside.

PS it looks to me like all of your comments are being auto-marked as "dead" and won't show up to most readers. Not sure why; they seem totally reasonable to me.

Might wanna reach out to [email protected] and ask.

(Welcome to HN btw)

Uh, doesn't it need a network to be an end-to-end communications device? Except for physical proximity of course.

If you wanna define it like this then apple would need to be your home ISP too.

And owning all the fiber connections between the base stations and their network.

And all connections from home to their network.

And even if they have that, you are not browsing Verizon services but from others like Google etc.

They don't do that.

Closest operator I know could be German Telekom because they came out from the state owned Telekom company and they got all the copper which was laying around.

I am not sure how else to define "fully integrated end-to-end".

Http, https, etc. the protocols responsible for the end to end communication

Protocols and nodes are not the same.