ok cool, whos gonna buy that? Europe wants to be independent from US big tech, elon got the US gov by the balls and china is surely has their own thing.
Alphabet spins off Starlink competitor Taara
Submitted 5 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/news/631049/alphabet-spins-off-starlink-competitor-taara
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lennee@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
drmoose@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s different tech that doesn’t suffer from starlink’s latency issues.
etchinghillside@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
Im very much open to replacing my Starlink - but this isn’t it. Land based lasers are just going to be attached to things called cell towers - and if I have one of those nearby… then I’d use cellular.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The tech sounds useful to bridge cell towers in rural areas among each other to skip satellites and laying cables.
Back when I was still in university, dormatories’ internet was established using a similar tech to the main campus. It was great, except on snowy days. Then there was just no internet at all.
drmoose@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s still longer distance than cellular and it can get even better. Cell towers will always win.
TinyRhino@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
At least it’s not more low orbit space junk
stefenauris@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
Google/Alphabet keeping up the tradition of terrible product names I see
adarza@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
a two-minute scan of products for sale on amazon will tell you that society is to the point of mashing keyboards to string letters together to come up with company names. this at least has consonants and vowels arranged in an order that resembles a word.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Whatever happened to Google Fiber (or whatever it was called)?
Unsalted8120@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
It still exists and is very reliable locally, but that’s different than this. Fiber is laid underground and can’t reach every corner where satellite coverage can.
singletona@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yea no. This company might even sincerely want to do its own constillation yet I doubt that. This is just to give the optics of ‘see! Musk isn’t a monopoly!’ along with ‘see! we’re not trump’s puppets! We’re fighting against President Musk!’
Same as their halfhearted attempts at laying fiber.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
google laid fiber to make the others panic and impliment fiber
meyotch@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
Did you read the article? This is a ground based system.
Pissmidget@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The picture of a dystopian future where feudal oligarchs are shooting down each others low orbit internet satellites in the furious competition for best coverage popped into my head.
Who are we casting as the satellite retrieval specialist with a penchant for bonsai trees living in an off grid log cabin?
singletona@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Not familiar with the current crop of actors, but Honestly I’d love william shatner and nicolas cage be in this one. Cage getting to go full tilt as the CEO who’s put offensive lasers on his satilites marketing them as an anti kessler syndrome measure but really jsut wanting to fry competitors.
Shatner even has the bonus of having a REALLY nice ranch they could use for location shots of shatner’s home as he’s talked into helping train the group of loonies that are going up there.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Zaybatsu. Japan lives in the 00s since the 80s, as they say. Since 1880s.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I guess that’s better but honestly not by much.
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See that guy between Bezos and Musk at the Trump inauguration? That’s Sundar Pichai, Alphabet/Google CEO.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s zero better. Everyone and everything that bends the knee to fascism is fascist, and should be treated the same.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
If I were forced to pick between the two I’d take the guy who is only a white supremacist when it’s profitable over the guy who is a white supremacist every waking moment.
Call it 1% better, if that.
recall519@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
It’s worse. Right now, people see the fascism in front of their eyes. They can choose to wake up or remain delusional. Before, it was masked and the average Joe wouldn’t know better.