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iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail
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Re: iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail
#52It is strange two phones have been found, but not the door. Most of the Cedar Hills/Beaverton area is houses and shops with sporadic green spaces that aren’t that large in comparison. It is possible the door fell into a green space, but the odds are it did not. I imagine it is in someone’s backyard, but it is January in rainy Oregon. People aren’t doing yard work right now. I wouldn’t be surprised if it isn’t found u…
The phones are trackable via gps
The post says the phone was in airplane mode, and was found by chance as someone walked past it.
Re: iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you implying that this is some sort of PR plant by Apple, or just saying this is the kind of thing they'll definitely be bringing up again later in actual PR?
I've never seen a single article about Android devices being so durable that it survived a great disaster, or saving its owner's life from polar bear or something. I believe it's their PR plan.
> I believe it's their PR plan.
... What exactly do you think they planned? The photos show a person's name on an email from an airline.
Are you suggesting they planted a fake phone on the side of a road, with a fake email from the airline about baggage for said airline open on the screen, and then had a hired stooge "find" the phone, and then either (a) make a false claim to the NTSB or (b) have a second stooge impersonate an NTSB officer on camera....?
Or perhaps it's more nefarious than that. Apple bribed a bunch of Boeing workers to be shit at their jobs for the last 24 months with the hopes that a panel would fail eventually; Concurrently they hired dozens upon dozens of stooges to take flights on routes using the previously-hobbled Boeing's, each of them carrying an iPhone in every pocket they have, so that when the inevitable happens they can make it rain iPhones, such that eventually some will land somewhere soft enough to survive the fall, and there will be enough of them that people will just find them on their morning walk...
Maybe the Android owners all got eaten by their respective polar bears so there isn't a story to push?
Re: iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail
#54It is strange two phones have been found, but not the door. Most of the Cedar Hills/Beaverton area is houses and shops with sporadic green spaces that aren’t that large in comparison. It is possible the door fell into a green space, but the odds are it did not. I imagine it is in someone’s backyard, but it is January in rainy Oregon. People aren’t doing yard work right now. I wouldn’t be surprised if it isn’t found u…
The phones are trackable via gps
Not in airplane mode, though.
Re: iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail
#55A lot of things went into my head: * The iPhone owner didn't put a password/passcode? * Damn, he paid Alaska $70 for baggage fee? * Now we know an iPhone will survive falling from the sky
Doing a bit of research I found a few sources that say that the terminal velocity for a generic smartphone is ~20-40mph, which isn't that much. Lots of phones survive car crashes with higher speeds than that. Add to that landing on softer soil and maybe even breaking fall with branches and I'm not shocked it survived. No screen crack is pretty good though. Smartphone screens have gotten crazy good recently
> No screen crack is pretty good though. Smartphone screens have gotten crazy good recently
It looks like it has an intact screen protector. The impact does not appear to be that strong.
Re: iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've never seen a single article about Android devices being so durable that it survived a great disaster, or saving its owner's life from polar bear or something. I believe it's their PR plan.
> I believe it's their PR plan. ... What exactly do you think they planned? The photos show a person's name on an email from an airline. Are you suggesting they planted a fake phone on the side of a road, with a fake email from the airline about baggage for said airline open on the screen, and then had a hired stooge "find" the phone, and then either (a) make a false claim to the NTSB or (b) have a second stooge impe…
Same are these devices function, but Apple is paying for those who share their stories.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple’s SE series is actually really nice if you don’t like the trend of bigger phones - it’s the same (or similar) internals as the new ones but in a small form factor (4.9 inches? Whatever the 6s had). I don’t want a large phone that barely fits in my pocket, but I want decent internals, so I have one. Apple is by no means a perfect company but I think the SE was one of their correct decisions.
Edit - never mind, had dates wrong.
You must be thinking of something else. Maybe the Mini? iPhone 13 Mini was discontinued last September.
1st generation SE had been discontinued long before the 2nd was released, but the 2nd was directly superseded by the 3rd, and you can still get the 3rd new, directly from Apple.
Re: iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail
#58A lot of things went into my head: * The iPhone owner didn't put a password/passcode? * Damn, he paid Alaska $70 for baggage fee? * Now we know an iPhone will survive falling from the sky
> Damn, he paid Alaska $70 for baggage fee? Based on https://www.alaskaair.com/content/travel-info/baggage/checke... it seems like that would be just two checked bags (not two extra bags, two bags!) and is irrelevant of your seat class? Be lucky the poor bloke didn't need a third bag, that's when it gets really expensive. I guess I just have to chalk this up to yet another case of oddities in American flights I can't…
Well in Europe, you pay about £23 per flight just for a carry-on bag and £30 per flight for a check-in bag so I'm not sure things are any different here.