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The Apple Watch saved my life! My girlfriend was at home and I took off from work early to swing by her place to say hello before heading back to my home.
We’re in her master bedroom going to pound town when, unbeknownst to us, her husband gets out of work early as well and comes right home. He snuck upstairs, spotted us, got very upset but didn’t say a word. He went to the basement to retrieve his shotgun.
On his way downstairs to the basement he knocked over a vase and I heard it, so I called a time out, opened the camera app and used it to view the contents of my cellphone’s camera having left the cellphone deliberately on the dining room table near the front door with the camera in full view of the front door and both sets of stairs.
I spotted him coming up the stairs from the basement, past the table and up the stairs so I moved swiftly and quietly to near the top of the stairs, hiding right around the corner, and when he came up I dropped kicked him right in the nuts, he fell backwards down the stairs ahd was stunned for long enough I was able to run part him.
His wife took a folding chair down the stairs and began to beat him unmercifully. I used my Apple Watch to play some music on my iPhone while she repeatedly beat that guy into oblivion while singing “Long Live Time Cook!” all the while still wearing no pants.
When she was done with him I grabbed my pants, called 9/11 to report that crazy chick to the cops then went home to my wife and had it out with her for not having dinner ready by 5:00 PM.
5:01 PM won’t due. She knows better. A man’s gotta eat, right?
Also, if anybody thinks I’m serious … I’ve got this sweet bridge in NYC to sell you 😉 …
We’re in her master bedroom going to pound town when, unbeknownst to us, her husband gets out of work early as well and comes right home. He snuck upstairs, spotted us, got very upset but didn’t say a word. He went to the basement to retrieve his shotgun.
On his way downstairs to the basement he knocked over a vase and I heard it, so I called a time out, opened the camera app and used it to view the contents of my cellphone’s camera having left the cellphone deliberately on the dining room table near the front door with the camera in full view of the front door and both sets of stairs.
I spotted him coming up the stairs from the basement, past the table and up the stairs so I moved swiftly and quietly to near the top of the stairs, hiding right around the corner, and when he came up I dropped kicked him right in the nuts, he fell backwards down the stairs ahd was stunned for long enough I was able to run part him.
His wife took a folding chair down the stairs and began to beat him unmercifully. I used my Apple Watch to play some music on my iPhone while she repeatedly beat that guy into oblivion while singing “Long Live Time Cook!” all the while still wearing no pants.
When she was done with him I grabbed my pants, called 9/11 to report that crazy chick to the cops then went home to my wife and had it out with her for not having dinner ready by 5:00 PM.
5:01 PM won’t due. She knows better. A man’s gotta eat, right?
Also, if anybody thinks I’m serious … I’ve got this sweet bridge in NYC to sell you 😉 …
The stroke, the car crash into the pool and some of the others were easily found online in actual news stories...
I give Apple a hard time, but I bought Apple watches for my elderly parents and it is a game changer. The fall detection is impressive. They have fallen and the watch will call 911. Incredible piece of tech and the watch is one of the great products that Tim Cook introduced
I was saved by my apple watch, massive blood clot spanning both lungs. Watch told me that my oxygen levels were too low. Ambulance to the hospital and the doctors told me I wouldn't have survived the night.
I have as questions about one story, the one where two young men were lost in a snowstorm in Japan. The person says that they lost both phones in the snow and then used their watch to contact help. How did they do this with the older watches which need an iPhone for satellite sos messages? Did they simply use the cellular feature on the Apple Watch? This probably means that they were not super remote when they got lost.
LOL, BUY AN APPLE WATCH or DIE!
Thats the message Apple is selling using scare tactics and emotional manipulation
Thats the message Apple is selling using scare tactics and emotional manipulation
You were one of the first posters who was added to my ignore list. It's so sad to see how toxic these threads have become.
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I think there’s a key difference you’re overlooking. Cars and guns are designed for totally different purposes than an Apple Watch. A car is meant for transportation, and while safety features are important, they’re secondary. A gun is explicitly designed to harm. The Apple Watch, by contrast, is marketed in large part around health and safety… it’s baked into its identity. Features like fall detection, heart monitoring, and emergency SOS aren’t “standard” in every wearable, and Apple has pushed the category forward precisely by highlighting their real-world impact.
Yes, of course Apple wants to profit. But if they’re choosing to profit by actually investing in tech that saves lives, isn’t that a better outcome than just another campaign about thinner bezels or shinier cases? Real stories of people whose lives were saved aren’t “emotional manipulation” so much as evidence that the product works as intended.
It may be emotional, but sometimes that’s the most honest way to show what technology can mean when it leaves the marketing page and touches real life.
Using real data to advertise is the most useful way of convincing others to try the watch which could also save their life. They also dont just dig up the data and throw it out there without consent. So find another reason to go whine.
Do good and let the world know!
I work in an emergency department. I have seen so many people die because any help came too late. I am glad that cardiac arrests and similar events can be prevented and do not lead to death, just by a watch.
And you should be glad too.
Have you personally seen them? All you have is faith that it is true.
I came upon a sudden stop in traffic on an Interstate highway, stopped, and that's all I remember. A distracted driver hit me at highway speed from behind knocking me unconscious with severe injuries, many broken bones & a serious head injury. There were plenty of people around to immediately come to my aid and call 911, but where it came in clutch here was the automatic notifications to my emergency contacts I had set up in the Health app. I was slumped over lights out while people were trying to help me, car electronics were still working, my wife got the notification I had likely been in an accident, called, and somebody who was helping answered the call. They told her I was unconscious and it seemed serious. I was a few hours away from home but that emergency feature allowed her to track my location (of course she could have used Find My but it's also built into this workflow) and she could see when I had obviously been picked up by an ambulance and watched my location update on the ambulance ride to determine the trauma hospital I was taken to. She immediately started heading that way and even though I wasn't yet conscious to communicate with her she knew where to go and got there around the time I started coming to. I had gone overboard I guess when I originally set my emergency contacts so when I finally was able to use my phone (cracked screen but still working!) I had infinite missed calls from my brother, sister, mom, dad, grandma who all also got the notification. They had talked to my wife and we immediately had a big group support system there to help because of how that feature worked.
I did see one of the past videos like this and it compelled me to write a short note to Apple using the Tim Cook "mailbox" that we all know is triaged by his team. I got a very nice short note back. I of course am not featured in this video, but I certainly believe these are all real stories, I bet there are thousands of them.
The note I got from Tim:
"I’m so glad you received immediate medical care and that you’ve fully recovered from this terrible accident.
Be well.
Best,
Tim
Sent from my iPad Pro"
I did see one of the past videos like this and it compelled me to write a short note to Apple using the Tim Cook "mailbox" that we all know is triaged by his team. I got a very nice short note back. I of course am not featured in this video, but I certainly believe these are all real stories, I bet there are thousands of them.
The note I got from Tim:
"I’m so glad you received immediate medical care and that you’ve fully recovered from this terrible accident.
Be well.
Best,
Tim
Sent from my iPad Pro"
My cousin sister had some old apple watch series3? bought brand new back then.
One day the watch notified that during the night her breathing slows down and heart rate goes abnormally low bps.
She went to doctor and they fixed her up by doing something but said it was life threatening condition. She didn’t notice any sleep issues but watch warned her.
One day the watch notified that during the night her breathing slows down and heart rate goes abnormally low bps.
She went to doctor and they fixed her up by doing something but said it was life threatening condition. She didn’t notice any sleep issues but watch warned her.
There are so many news stories around the world. Most of the stories in the video were covered by local news at the time.
It's official. This site has finally hit rock bottom. This is a microcosm of what is so wrong with our country. I hope MacRumors is proud of themselves for letting this continue. I will not waste any more of my time reading this crap.
I actually have, LOL! All I can say but have done work through TBWA.
„Based“ on emails and „faked“ are two very, very different things.
I also don’t see how there aren’t a plethora of real stories for Apple to choose from each year, especially since they make these videos.
Maybe your cousin is completely right, maybe he got something wrong.
It’s incredible he has insight in this.
There are certain liberties you lose after some time being publicly traded.
Making things more affordable is often one of them.
You don't know if that is 100% true, unless you tracked down and researched each story used. I don't think you have.
My Apple Watch is how I found out I had atrial fibrillation 6 years ago.