This is one of those motivational quotes where people are like "huh, yeah they're right!" But when you give it any sort of actual thought you realize how lacking they are in substance... Like saying "if you ever feel like giving up, remember that the earth under your house has been holding it up for decades and hasn't given up!" . Because yeah, no shit. It just sits there doing nothing.

So while I agree with you, the iPhone is also the first consumer phone in history to include it, right? Like, we all just went out into the woods without satellite phones in the past and took that risk. It'd definitely be a nice feature to know you had in your pocket just in case, but at the same time I'm not seeing it as a deal breaker until there's mass adoption of something like that.