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Apple Watch's Life-Saving Potential Highlighted in Suspenseful '911' Ad
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Not every one is like you. Some people are genuinely curious and want to understand why.
Yeah but only if it’s an LTE Apple Watch. A wifi only Apple Watch has no connectivity and can’t call 911 if the paired phone isn’t nearby and there’s no wifi, such as in the situations shown in the ad.
No they don’t. You only have to enter the 4 or 6 digit passcode when you put on the watch. After that, the watch stays unlocked until you take it off your wrist. Clearly you’ve never owned an Apple Watch.
Yeah but you can only make calls using the watch if your iphone is nearby. In a situation such as those shown in Apple’s ad, where the paired iphone is nowhere nearby, you wouldn’t be able to call 911 from a wifi only Apple Watch even if it were the latest model. Only the cellular models can do that.
My only issue with the ad is that they should have made it more obvious from the start that this was an Apple Watch ad. I saw about half of it and thought it was a promo for the 911 TV show so I flipped the channel.
Yeah, I should have done that, especially in the context of 911 and etc. Thanks for the reminder. No one else thinks he sounds like a cop, huh.
Could I ask if your blood oxygen was below 90 consistently? I've gotten an 89 or 88 once or twice while sleeping on my back, but it was a singular reading. I got the Watch 6 in particular to monitor blood oxygen while I sleep, and I do notice that higher readings correspond to better sleep for me.
I sleep easier at night knowing my mom has an Apple Watch with cell service. She’s not so old to need assisted living, but if she fell in her basement, no one would come looking for days.
Watching sports can trigger alerts also.
Apple Watches thought fans watching Saints-Vikings were having heart attacks
The incredible finish was not for the faint of heart
www.cbssports.com
No. You can read about the insane increase in false-alarm 911 calls already from these types of devices. They force responders to locations where no one needs help to verify the unwitting person (often kids) werent harmed. Sometimes even when the caller verbally tells the dispatcher they are ok.
Plus, you get intimate with someone and your heart rate goes up. Pranks… heart rate goes up… fall during a dream - you practically die. Sure you could manually deactivate 911 services… in the middle of play time - or worse forget to turn it off and have a firefighter/officer at your front door.
If it were to give you the option to cancel, it would have to notify you it was happening. If it did that, you would hear it which would defeat the purpose of being a a secret during an assault or crime.
Right now, you can hold the button down and call with a flick… it’s like someone at apple already considered these things.
Every false-alarm scenario you described would be excluded by either detected motion of the wearer or the fact the wearer has to actually engage with the watch to call 911 since the automatic 911 call case would obviously need to have a very high heuristic threshold.
That a great idea. Keep in mind, you can call 911 from your Apple Watch anytime your iPhone is nearby. WiFi isn't required.
The problem is “iPhone needs to be nearby”. Apple Watch Wi-Fi version cannot call 911 on its own. And this is that post’s whole point.
I don’t want TV anymore. Cut the cord and just use my Apple TV and various streaming services so this is the first advert for the Apple Watch I’ve seen in a while. I have to admit it was a very powerful advert. No fancy product shots, just people and true life stories.
Agreed, but I live in a cell phone challenged area, right now I still only get 1 bar of 3G signal most of the time at home, so when I bought the watch and I didn’t know how well it would work as a phone (honestly, a lot better than I expected) I didn’t want to pay extra for the phone and for the service. I think Verizon charges $10 for each add on device like iPads and watches that you use. Verizon also let’s you connect to their phone network thru WIFI, so my phone works ok if my home network is up and running.
When I get a new watch, either next year or the year after depending on what new features are available it will be a cellular version and not a WiFi only. It works fine for taking calls as well as texts so I don’t mind spending a little extra so if I forget my phone I can still get that message.
Then that defeats the purpose altogether. If the “user has to engage the watch”. It already has a button.
Plus, good luck getting repeatable studies on muggings and attacks for body responses and movements that accurately detect crime from pranks… especially when all people react differently - flight/fight/freeze responses.
Do not hold your breath. This isn’t gonna happen. Now, on the other hand, a car crash feature, maybe…
The world doesn't hold its breath for those who only understand how something can't work.