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Teen Receives Call From Tim Cook, iPhone, and Apple Internship After Apple Watch Saves His Life
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Your right hand index finger...
Go ahead and place the tip of it on your left wrist, where your radial artery passes over your lateral carpal bones... and WOW! You can feel your pulse, and count your heartbeats.
Is that usual intern grunt work for tech companies? In college, I was a software dev intern for a tech company and was treated like a full time employee. But yes, he's still in high school so I could see them giving him a less demanding role.
My guess is that with WatchOS2 you can create that app (if someone isn't doing so already).
So he waited until his watch told him his heart rate was 145 before going to the hospital and if not for his watch would have done nothing about it?
I'm sorry but I thought the chest pains and pain when breathing in would have been a more obvious trigger than a watch telling me my heart rate.
I woke up with chest pains when breathing in that went through to my back a year ago, I went to A&E and it turned out I had Pluracy.
If you're in pain, go to hospital.
I'm sorry but I thought the chest pains and pain when breathing in would have been a more obvious trigger than a watch telling me my heart rate.
I woke up with chest pains when breathing in that went through to my back a year ago, I went to A&E and it turned out I had Pluracy.
If you're in pain, go to hospital.
A quick query on the iMessage and Apple Watch heartrate logfiles can do wonders. I'm afraid it's time to read those ToS'es.
Not to say that these products are not helping, but come on! One can certainly be aware of these elevated HR without an Apple Watch. If you have chest pains, hold you wrist and count to 15. If you see that your HR is 30 beats or more in 15 seconds, go seek medical help ASAP!
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Thanks...? Lol seems a little fecicious, but I'll take it, haha. I have an angiogram scheduled for tomorrow, and hopefully my surgery will be next week. Otherwise, the week after.
Welcome to Apple. You want coffee? Oh your cardiologist told you not to drink coffee? No problem, just one double americano with skimmed milk then for me. Off you go chop chop I don't have all day.
This attitude won't bring you far at the PR department would it
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I love apple and have a Watch but this is just absurd. Apple has now invented taking a pulse and is a lifesaver? :facepalm:
The jealousy runs deep within you.
What if while talking on the phone with Tim Cook, this guy came off as semi intelligent? Maybe Tim Cook was impressed at the way the boy handled himself. AKA the phone call was a mini interview.
Nah, let's whine and gripe at the opportunities other's are given.
i actually thought the same thing. phone call was a nice gesture. i can even see giving him an iphone. but i don't quite get the internship thing.
Yes ok but do any of those come in rose gold?
Rappers, radio DJ's, doctors, athletes. Potato potato
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Yeah man... There's a big difference between cheer-leading and useful facts. For 349 bucks (or much less), I can get a much better product to monitor my health.
Yea, you sound like a complete idiot. Maybe the kid expressed an interest in the tech field and Tim offered an internship. You don't have to "qualify" for an internship either. They're commonly offered to students at all levels, where they do some kind of "work" in exchange for experience.
Exactly. Most members on this board see "internship" and think he'll be designing the iPhone 8 next to Ive, lol.
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No, it is odd. So is getting invited to Facebook and the White House for making a clock that looks like a bomb. At least the Apple Watch won't be mistaken for an explosive device.
For 95% of them, it's just like applying for regular jobs, with their own set of requirements.
But the thing is, people only get health monitoring devices if they think they should be concerned about their health. That is, apparently healthy people with no history of health problems aren't lining up at the health store to buy heart monitors. People get Apple Watch for non-health related reasons, then find that it is useful for health tracking, too.
The high school student in this story might eventually have realized he was sick and needed to go to the hospital even without the Apple Watch. But I think seeing that heartbeat in numbers probably shocked him into realizing something was very wrong, whereas if not for the watch, it wouldn't have even occurred to him to check his heartbeat. At the least, the watch made him go get help earlier than otherwise.
How many teenagers spent all day wearing a heart rate monitor before Apple Watch?
Again: how well were smart watches/bands doing before Apple Watch?
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