Latency is a big deal for some things. Although it's from 1996, the principle given here are still applicable:

    http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html[0]

Discussed here:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7826768[1]

And while it's true that slow internet is better than no internet, people still don't grasp that latency is a big deal - it really is.

I see that in this case the latency issue is being dealt with by using LEO satellites and doing clever things with hand-overs, and that's good. The question is whether it's enough, although given that it's Musk at the helm, it probably is.

Edited to add real links:

[0] http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7826768