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FYI - For Your Innovation · 2026-04-08
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They right now can deploy capital at a very high return on invested capital into Starlink satellites because they are putting bandwidth up that people will use in all kinds of different ways. You're using it in your airplanes. You're using it on your houses. You'll be using it to get direct cell phone coverage. And so it's a great ROI opportunity, return on invested capital opportunity.

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Ben Thompson
Dithering · 2026-04-08
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this is going to be the real downside of like Starlink coming to all these airplanes, because the more likely you're able to stream, like particularly sports. I think I was actually, I had good Wi-Fi performance on this plane. So I was watching a basketball game. I'm pretty sure. No, I was watching the World Baseball Classic. That's what I was doing. And this happened like a week ago. And it just guarantees that I'm more likely to have my iPad out, which means I'm more likely to leave it in the

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