Is your iPhone about to stop being nearly useless when you’re off the grid?

Bloomberg’s Apple reporter Mark Gurman just wrote an entry in his Power On newsletter about the dream of a satellite-powered iPhone. To be clear, no, the iPhone is not on the verge of becoming a fully functioning satellite phone like the one that gets eaten by a dinosaur in Jurassic Park 3 (I can’t be the only one who remembers this). But Gurman points to some new features likely on the way that could make the iPhone the low-key winner in the race to put connectivity in dead zones.

Specifically, an API is reportedly coming that will allow third-party developers to build with Apple’s satellite functions in mind.

Apple is taking a very different approach from, say, T-Mobile’s T-Satellite partnership with Sta

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