iPhone14 - Another Big Step towards a Dystopian Utopia with a Little Insider Trading Thrown In!

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The launch of the new iPhone14 was annoyingly spread far and wide across the newsfeeds last week. You couldn't fail to have not known it was new model time as Apple ramped up the hype to sell yet another expensive phone to desperate consumers with money to burn. Despite having zero interest, I couldn't help but glance down at the new features and one, in particular, caught my eye...

Satellite Communication

I thought I'd look a little deeper at what I consider to be a very important and rather frightening feature which was seemingly glossed over in the reviews with scant detail on how it worked and even fewer people seemingly interested, as their universal glee at getting their hands on the latest big brother, mobile data collecting and tracking devices that you have to buy yourself took over their senses.

Satellite Communication

Wow. Your shiny new iPhone will now be able to send and receive emergency messages, for free for the first two years at least, via satellites, if you point it directly at the satellite which you find by using an App, but there was very little mention of exactly which satellite, and that concerned me.

Well although there was no mention at the keynote, it didn't take much searching to find that the company is 'Globalstar'.

Who?

Globalstar
According to Wikipedia,

Globalstar operates a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation for satellite phone and low-speed data communications. The Globalstar second-generation constellation consists of 24 low Earth orbiting (LEO) satellites.

Their company history is very interesting and well worth a read and includes lost satellites due to the Russian launch vehicle crashing and a number of 'calls', restructuring and bankruptcy.

This deal with Apple it seems, has been in the making for quite a while with Globalstar sending the first satellite, a backup, for nine years on 19th June 2022, and previous to that, had agreed to a deal to buy 17 new satellites, to be operational by mid-2025.

So that's who will be handling your data but who owns Globalstar?

Firstly, I'd have to say that Globalstar looks to have spent its entire history on financially shaky ground but that aside, let's have a look at the current major shareholders.

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What a surprise, the usual suspects!

Now I'm not casting aspersions here but you'd expect a deal like this one between Apple and Globalstar to take two to three years of negotiation to bring it to a conclusion. In early 2020, Globalstar said it had agreed to provide services for a “potential customer” that it did not name yet just prior to that, what happened three years ago in the markets?
Well, according to CNN Business

Institutional investors purchased a net $719.1 thousand shares of GSAT during the quarter ended June 2019. This may signal that the smart money is gaining interest in this company.

As for their trading in the last quarter, look at who strengthened their positions...
These trades were all made around the 30th of June at the same time as each other!

Who knew what and when? Draw your own conclusions.

One thing is for sure, the everyday average individual investor doesn't get the same intel as the institutions and their old boy's network. Will there be an investigation by the SEC? Behave!

Since the announcement, it also appears that numerous small investors and even the board of directors at Globalstar have been grabbing shares and as such, the share price currently sits 5% what is was previous to the iPhone14 launch.

How much data are people going to freely give away in the name of having 'the latest' technology? Why do so many people happily allow their phones and computers gather and share so much personal information about themselves? It completely befuddles me. I like my phones and gadgets as much as the next person. I want to use this exciting technology but at what cost? I find it completely unacceptable that if I didn't personally adjust my own privacy settings, Google, and therefore the government by default and their data laws, know exactly where I am, what I'm reading, and via all the phone sensors, where I'm moving at any given point in time, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

In comments, if you don't mind this, please explain why it doesn't concern you. I'd love to hear your rationale and opinion.

Thanks for reading and best wishes.
@nathen007

Sources are linked within the body of the post and additional content came from:-
Apple to be largest user of Globalstar’s satellite network for iPhone messaging


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I believe all this new feature us to drag the attention of many people to purchase the new iPhone 14 wish will definitely attract so many people to buy without hesitating to spend the money.

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any reason to downvote my post?

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Do you mean on this account or the dozens of other accounts you appear to have?
PS Congratulations on your 20th comment in 3 years :-)

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it's not dozens it's millions of accounts I have

thx for congratulating me guess not everyone is social like u

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anyway still waiting for proof

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My friend you see we have come to terms with giving up our privacy. All this started slowly with the fight against terrorism from 2001 and has escalated, to a point where the majority does not care at all. Something similar is happening with property now. I saw an analysis by Guy from the Coin Bureau YouTube channel, where he explained in a very simple way that we have reduced management and not full control over our smartphones, that in the future apple will launch the subscription for the full action of the hardware! How this will be extended to the car and the residence... Here come the words of Noam Chomsky, my friend, about how society is manipulated! Nice Postin any case 👍

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I think you're right mate! We have let this creep up on us through the inducement of the benefits and now it is too late to put the genie back in the bottle.
I see this happening in cars too! I just bought a car, the first I have owned for 15 years and it's fully connected to the grid! Staggering differences in just a few years.

I'm neither anti-technology or anti-government but this endless integration into one big grid genuinely scares me.

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Satellite emergency call via Satellite... Holy shit... I didn't know the new Iphone could do that, considering a Sat phone costs upwards of €2000, that's a pretty cool feature, not one that you'd need to use much, but if you ever really needed it, it could well save a life..

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