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Not on iPhone.
It does on mine.
Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911
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Interesting, how much does the Apple Watch fall detection cost monthly?
$10/month if you factor in the need for a cellular plan for the watch? $15/month for a fall detection device vs $399 + $10/month buys a lot of months. Yes, I know the Apple Watch does more, but I wasn't the one who tried to make the comparison. Does the Apple Watch stay on the phone with you until EMS arrives? Is it capable of giving medical information to dispatch? Another "Apple was the first to do this!"... "No it…
So long as the non-cellular version of the watch has an active bluetooth link with your phone, it will make the same callout.
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Can someone fix this? WHERE'S DANG, he's sniffing around all the time. It has to be one line of CSS.
Should only be one line, I didn't see the problem this time around because I had installed this plugin the other day.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21020162
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Re: Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911
#75Life Alert, horrendous as their ads may be, would probably be surprised to hear that it's only now that you're finding a "device which can contact emergency services in the event of an accident" so life changing. As might OnStar, etc.
As well as what the sibling commentors have pointed out, Life Alert also never bothered to partner with a company that would put their system into a piece of consumer-electronics that the average healthy (maybe even young ) adult would buy for themselves. Nobody wants to wear a LifeAlert bracelet and a watch/fitness-tracker; they want their watch/fitness-tracker to just have that functionality . And so they make a ch…
To be fair, almost all in home medical alert systems use a fixed base station. So even if they wore both, the Life Alert bracelet would only save lives in a ditch very near the home.
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#76My cousin died last week of a heart attack on the way from his house in a village south of Nuremberg to the bakery 10 minutes away to get bread for breakfast. His Apple Watch (presumably because of the fall detection) called emergency services for him and gave him time to call his wife.
My condolences, it's always painful losing family. I too lost a cousin about six years ago due to heart failure, he had just about turned 21. I wish he'd had an Apple Watch (or similar device) at the time.
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#78Life Alert, horrendous as their ads may be, would probably be surprised to hear that it's only now that you're finding a "device which can contact emergency services in the event of an accident" so life changing. As might OnStar, etc.
As with everything, there is some give and take, but one point in favor of something like a watch doing fall detection is a potentially better anti-false-positive detection. Set your life alert pendant down on the dresser a little hard and it may think you've fallen, and maybe you don't hear the callback for verification, so you get a visit from the police in your shower after they've forced the front door open. This happened to my grandfather ;-). The Apple Watch should be able to correctly avoid a false fall detection in that situation because you will have taken it off your wrist (though not strictly necessary since it is waterproof) and it knows that it's not on your wrist.
Re: Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911
#79Life Alert, horrendous as their ads may be, would probably be surprised to hear that it's only now that you're finding a "device which can contact emergency services in the event of an accident" so life changing. As might OnStar, etc.
As well as what the sibling commentors have pointed out, Life Alert also never bothered to partner with a company that would put their system into a piece of consumer-electronics that the average healthy (maybe even young ) adult would buy for themselves. Nobody wants to wear a LifeAlert bracelet and a watch/fitness-tracker; they want their watch/fitness-tracker to just have that functionality . And so they make a ch…
This is the key thing.
There are many good ideas that exist out there that are "unknown" because the product they are in misses some aspect of how consumers would wish to consume them. My favorite was that the Tesla Roadster wasn't the first electric car, but it was the first that I could see myself buying at some point.
The nice thing about this being a feature of the watch is that the watch brings a bunch of great stuff all on its own. That it can also call emergency services or diagnose Afib is like bonus time.
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#80I just got my series 5 Apple Watch a couple of days ago, and the ECG functionality is a big part of why. There's history of heart disease in my family, and I've been to the doctor a few times with symptoms but of course when I get there they find nothing wrong. Maybe I'm a hypochondriac, who knows. Anyway, last time I went my doctor asked if I could share data from my watch, so figure I'd upgrade so I can get an actu…
I was able to ask my doctor to prescribe a halter monitor for 24 hours after similarly having intermittent "irregular heartbeat". I have fantastic insurance and have access to a major cardiac research center so ymmv but may be worth asking for the 24 hour study if you're concerned.
Ultimately what I got back was "yep you do have an irregular heartbeat sometimes. It's nothing threatening and you'll be fine." They additionally did a stress test and found that under exertion my heartbeat returns to normal so it was nice to have the peace of mind.