Comment on Family rescued in Maui thanks to iPhone's satellite feature

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• stopthatgirl7@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  9to5 Mac is by virtue of the name very celebratory of Apple things.

  Focus more on the tech saving people’s lives.

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  • AnonymousBaba@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    its saves nearly every month a person . before it was apple accident detection feature before that it was apple watch and so on .

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    • stopthatgirl7@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Tech like this helps people in more subtle ways, too.

      I bought an Apple Watch to monitor my heart rate because a symptom of something I was diagnosed with was it could cause it to speed up. When my doctor decided to take me off the meds that kept it lowered, it was only thanks to the data from my watch that she put me back on it - she didn’t believe me when I said my heart rate felt like it had started going too fast Ando was running out of breath too easily after she took me off then (she pointed to blood test numbers as “proof” I didn’t need it anymore), then I pulled out my phone and pulled up the app that collated the data from my watch, and showed her the giant spike in numbers after she took me off the meds.

      Then she went, “…ah,” and put me back on the heart meds. She wouldn’t have otherwise.

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      • AnonymousBaba@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        it did what is was supposed to do . you could have used any heart rate monitering device to give her data . you know androids also have these feature but we cant see news article about it or people saying my android device saved me .

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      • scytale@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Hyperthyroidism? Just guessing.

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• sugarfree@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s a genuinely good feature, we’re going to continue seeing more positive stories like this as more people use it in life threatening situations.

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• milady@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It is an ad.

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• EnderWi99in@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because it is. Apple does this shit all time and it's enfuriating. Especially considering Android offers exactly the same feature so there's no "thanking" a brand when both major platforms do this.

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  • SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Which Android phones have satellite access? I saw Qualcomm came out with hardware in the beginning of the year that can also sms over satellite but haven’t seen an Android phone with it yet.

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  • my_blackest_day@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Which android phone has the same feature?

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