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This is what lanyards are for! Keep your phone on a lanyard, your lanyard on your neck, and your phone won't fall onto the ground.
 
The dropped phone caused nothing. The woman’s desperation and naive decision to recklessly retrieve it herself was the cause.
 
Tim Cook would say ” Customers love iPhones, they are ready to give up their lives but not iPhones like this woman in Australia”. And they show a drone footage of a woman hanging down between the rocks.
 
Broken vertebra, thats not nice. All the best to that poor soul. But thats another story.

Article looks like an advert for iCloud backup.
Wishing you successful recovery..
 
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Who is responsible for the clickbait headlines?

"Dropped iPhone Causes Woman to Be Trapped Upside Down in Rock Crevice for Hours"

The difference between causality and correlation needs to be explained perhaps... :)

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I believe the "who confuses correlation and causation" part is redundant.
 
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It’s like the end of Indiana Jones when his dad dropped the Holy Grail down that lava-filled crevice
 
LOL… ya anyone stupid enough to risk their life for a device. Darwin theory in action. I hope they charge her for the cost of the rescue, like they would in my country for stupid incidents like this.

Misleading title, should read…

Dropped iPhone Stupidity Causes Woman to Be Trapped Upside Down in Rock Crevice for Hours
While I do think the situation is funny, I think people are being quite harsh calling it stupidity. She dropped a thing, she tried to lean down to get it back, she slipped and fell. I know a person who is blind after missing a step on some stairs. **** happens, you don't have to be stupid for unfortunate things to happen. I don't believe any single person in this thread calling her stupid, hasn't done anything in their life that is at least equally stupid, and could have gotten them killed if they were unlucky. But hey, maybe one person exists that never crossed a road without looking both ways.
 
I was referring to the mainstream ones, like Facebook and Twitter/X
I know, I'm just pointing out the irony that the exact mindset you display in your complaint is what caused those services to be junkyards. You engaged with the article, which makes the article seem succesful, so now we get more.

Someone (might have been Myke Hurley) pointed out on a podcast recently that as the new services that have popped up are growing, the amount of junk posts and angry complainers are also growing. It turns out the problem was never the service, the problem was the people. The more people are using any service with a social angle, including forums like this one, the more trashy it is going to become. Crappy social media didn't make people idiots, it's the idiots that made social media crappy. Sad fact of life.
 
A fate like this is my personal Room 101. I’ve had nightmares about slipping down a hole upside down and powerless to get out. So glad she was rescued.
 
Today people die while trying to take the most awesome picture for insta 🙈
Glad she survived, this must have been hell.
 
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