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FWIW, unless you are over 60 it's not enabled by default. Presumably this is to minimize false alarms, but if you want this feature enabled, you should make certain it's enabled. Here's how: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208944
s/over 60/under 65/?
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Does Apple marketing guarantee that it will work? I bought watches for my parents, partly because of the feature, but I never had the impression that it was guaranteed to correctly detect all (or even most) life threatening situations
> I never had the impression that it was guaranteed to correctly detect all (or even most) life threatening situations Apple Watch detects falls, not unconsciousness. It doesn't detect heart attacks either. > Apple Watch cannot detect all falls. The more physically active you are, the more likely you are to trigger fall detection due to high impact activity that can appear to be a fall. [0] [0] https://support.apple.…
Headline is misleading. The watch detects falls and calls 911 based on that, not based on "unconscious".
I agree the Apple Watch is really useful this way. But can't an "independent" device do this? It does not need to be tied to a phone or an app ecosystem (android or iOS) to work. It does need a cellular connection, and some logic on the device, but that's about it. This device would be cheaper and affordable to a larger set of people than spending upwards of $500(estimated) on an apple watch.
So if you don’t want to buy a watch, then get a standalone product. But if you already have an Apple Watch, then this is a cool feature to have.
Here is an article discussing them: https://www.medicalalertadvice.com/fall-detection/
Why does everyone who praises Apple on HN qualify it with the fact that they don’t like Apple for other reasons? Also, Apple is probably the best corporate citizen of any company its relative size in history.
Apple is undoubtedly a contentious company, and many of their fans are highly obsessive... I think OP is just letting people know that they're more if a critic than an obsessive fan, thus showing contrast with their praise of the feature.
Not by any vaguely reasonable metric when compared to other companies its size
and ill still be this bitter dude who doesn't want the 911 call to happen even when im unconscious. :(
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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.
> Can someone fix this? There is nothing to fix: code blocks do (almost) exactly the right thing for code. (the indentation on the right is unnecessary and counterproductive, though, but that's not the main source of the complaint here.) They are horrible for quotes, especially on mobile, but that's not what they are for. Admittedly, quotes are vastly more common than code on HN and HN could use a good quote formatti…
would be a good change.