• cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOP
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      22 hours ago

      I don’t see it as philanthropy. That would be donating money or doing business with him that you could have done somewhere else for a better price or better quality

      It sounds like the business was straight up better and more secure with Elons competition.

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        More Secure yes, better unlikely.
        ATM noone can beat the starlink constellation, Chinese are launching at the pace matching starlink but they are not there yet.
        France choice was likely purely for security reasons given what trump was trying to do. I think oneweb is launching using musk rockets still

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          13 hours ago

          Risking being cut off if you don’t allow a trade with Trump or accept to be annexed by the USA is part of my quality assessment for the service

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          Y’all downvoting because he’s saying the competition isn’t better yet is kinda shitty. Using an inferior product out of spite isn’t the answer either. In technology something else always comes along, but in the meantime you gotta deal with Elon for something like this.