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That's remind me of Nokia. Maybe Apple has reached it's peak.
My nokia never needed a condom, it would vomit its battery upon hitting the ground but after a little bit of massaging, it was fine.
Neither does my iPhone. Unless cosmetic marks irritate you, they’re plenty durable without a case.
I would've preferred that the identifying information of the person had been edited out. The phone's owner experienced a traumatic incident. Which furthermore is under investigation. Posting some kind of photo feels OK, however, since finding the phone is arguably newsworthy. And the Twitter poster says that it was open to that email, suggesting that they didn't go snooping through the phone. A little privacy redacti…
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I imagine this will end up in an NTSB evidence warehouse for years.
No it won't. They'll log where it landed and that's about it. What kind of of evidence do you think it has on it?
49 CFR § 830.10 appears to be one of the regulations on the subject [1].
This isn’t surprising - there was a wired story about phones surviving from planes back in 2011 (1) The gist is that it’s a light object and due to that + broad shape, its terminal velocity is not very high. Coupled that with the mass and there’s not a lot of force on landing. Of course the phone itself is fragile so it might not take a lot of force to break. Still, as long as it lands on something soft it might be o…
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It is not very smart to find owner this way, when you can just reach the airline, which has contacts of all passengers.
If I was the passenger I’d want to know it’s found and have the possibility of finding the finder. Best would be to post it online like this—I’d see it that way. If they turn it in to the airline it’s probably going to be stuck in bureaucracy for months. If they turn it in to the NTSB, it’ll be gone for years.
Besides, why would the NTSB hold onto the phone for years? It's not part of the aircraft, there's no real reason why they'd need to have it at all. Is it just common with US government agencies?
A 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
Non technical users do some things that we don't even dream about doing, like setting auto-lock to "Never". EDIT: I see some people got offended with the bit about Non-Technical users and downvoted me to Hades. I apologize. Not everyone is paranoid like me.
Meanwhile, a 1 meter drop onto a wood floor cracked my screen. Device longevity is weird.
I would've preferred that the identifying information of the person had been edited out. The phone's owner experienced a traumatic incident. Which furthermore is under investigation. Posting some kind of photo feels OK, however, since finding the phone is arguably newsworthy. And the Twitter poster says that it was open to that email, suggesting that they didn't go snooping through the phone. A little privacy redacti…
The name in the email is a generic Vietnamese origin name, so while I agree with you about privacy, the post didn't expose much information about the owner.
Over 40% of Vietnamese share the same surname, and only about a dozen or so are in common usage.
The name reveals very little about the owner.
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You think he found the phone, and before doing anything he called Apple who said "Ok yeah, contact the NTSB, then take some selfies with it and post them on the internet. Once you do we'll make it rain money bruh."
They're trolling you dude. Their first comment was just a joke, but people bought in, and now you're being trolled, like in the original sense.