Hello and welcome to the Apple Insider Podcast this week, brought to you by our friends,

Zockdock and Collide. More on them and how to spell their names later on. But first, if

you're a regular listener to the Apple Insider Podcast, you'll have noticed that I am

not your host, Stephen Robles, and if you're not a regular listener or all I could have

got away with it. I'm William Gallagher, sitting in for Stephen, and that means sitting

in to get a chance to talk with Wesley Hilliard. Wes, particularly glad to get to talk to you

because previously on Apple Insider, you said you'd be going out hiking in dangerous places

once emergency SOS was out. Well, Apple has saved me the trouble because they included

a demo feature within settings, so I don't have to get lost to try out the satellite connection.

Okay, you copped out there, really, is what you're telling me. Yeah.

Apple did me a favor. They knew that if I got lost and had to pay for a helicopter, it would have been a

whole thing. I thought we could have had a helicopter trip, we could have had all that sound effects

and stuff. Really, you just had another cup of tea and carried on working, didn't you? This is,

well, I'm not going to say it's a let down because you'll hear me, but it's not a dramatic start.

How about this then? I didn't look at the demo because I'm only going to get jealous.

It's coming to the UK later, but I'm not going to anywhere in the UK that doesn't have decent

coverage or has need of emergency services, hopefully. So what did you learn from the demo?

Have we learned anything new? It's pretty much what Apple already showed us.

It's interesting because I don't even know if it's a real demo because it kind of seems like

it was faking it a little bit. Some people did say that they weren't able to connect to a satellite,

so maybe it actually is connecting to the satellite and everything because it turns off your cellular

and takes you step by step to the process. I sat in my office and did it under a roof,

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