Huh? Is this a legitimate question? I must've missed in my clearly written in English response where I said it has never happened. I'm sure a false positive has occurred nothing is perfect however there's well documented clear differences. The first being Apple is well documented as constantly and over and over again calling 911 for things that are nowhere near being close to a crash. Multiple people saying that it would call 6 times on a ski trip. You have 911 call centers being inundated with false 911 calls. Do you see or hear of a 911 call centers reporting crippling amounts of false 911 calls from a Google phone? No you do not......
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Which could mean that google’s crash detection does work as advertised (in which case we should be hearing more of it online), it plain doesn’t work (hence no triggers) or that the majority of users were simply never aware of it (is it opt in or opt out by default?) and so never made use of it.
Or what is actually the case and you will never admit it. It does work, 911 call centers aren't out there reporting when a phones crash detection works it just works does it's thing no one is out there calling the NY times to gloat a phone features works. No one calls the NY times and says hey my phone made a phone call!! The person expects it to work and it works. This is the case with crash detection on Android the user just expects it to work and it works. When a 911 call centers starts making noise and calling the news is when their operations are being hindered by malfunctioning phones not working correctly as is the case with the iphone.
Get off your high horse and realize Apple has a bad design with their crash detection they need to fix and they're handling it poorly. Google designed theirs properly and it just works when needed.
I have been browsing Reddit on android crash detection threads and my initial sensing is that it too has its fair share of misfires.
The key difference is that it’s apparently disabled by default, and users need to manually enable it, which could explain the low number of misfires. If people aren’t turning on said feature, then they aren’t using it, regardless of how well or poorly it works.
It does also raise an interesting question about when a feature should be enabled or disabled by default. In the former, you potentially help more people, but also cause more problems for certain parties. It’s the reverse in the latter, where fewer issues are caused, but there are people whom the feature could have helped save, but didn’t.
How does one make the call?
IMO, a low number false positives from the pixel means people aren't using the feature and/or the press isn't interested in the Pixel because it's not clickbatey enough. Sonny Bono would have benefited from this feature, although it seems people suggest it get turned off in a ski location.
All I'll say is did you read your reply before you posted with any seriousness?
Cause your defense of apple having flawed crash detection and Google has issues we have no clues of simply because the media isn't interested in reporting about android? A one second Google search would bring up hundreds of various news articles about different things android. The media reports on Android stuff all the time it has nothing to do with people not using it or the news isn't interested in reporting on it, it's because it doesn't bombard 911 call centers with false 911 calls....
So your response is that it doesn't work and people don't use it by providing a source where it explicitly worked as intended? Also the opt in isn't hidden the user has the choice during set up of their phone. It's clear as day and we'll explained the user explicitly has to select yes or no.
Again circling back to the start we have verifiable proof that apples crash detection is flawed and is calling 911 centers and overwhelming them because they developed bad software. You don't have those reports from Google not because it isn't an issue but simply because the phone doesn't do that. Not sure how hard this is to understand.........
That's a great opinion, but you can't disprove anything (my opinion) I posted. A google search is not proof.
If you slammed into a tree unconcious and your life depended on your phone calling 911, I'll bet you would be glad they are "reckless". This will get sorted out, in the same way airtags have been tweaked. In the meantime, those who have had their lives saved I'll bet are glad apple is public beta testing. The rest of them, MR is an echo chamber for criticism, which Apple probably doesn't listen to.