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Teen Receives Call From Tim Cook, iPhone, and Apple Internship After Apple Watch Saves His Life
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I've used a Microsoft Band and clunky-design aside; I was satisfied by it's health, fitness and sleep tracking.
Having a heart rate monitor attached to his wrist might have helped a little but... if you're heart is going at 145 beats per minute after a nap... surely you're going to notice that and think there's something wrong.
I mean, putting a number on it doesn't really change how wrong that's gotta feel.
I mean, putting a number on it doesn't really change how wrong that's gotta feel.
Have had something similar myself after a double bypass. My doctor has been impressed I can easily give him regular stats for a more accurate picture without having to run down the surgery all the time. He has even bought an apple watch himself to try out and look at getting some ideas for an app. Hope all the surgery goes well for you and you are back to rude heath really soon. All the very best from across the big pond.
It's not only how the patient feels, but getting the people around him to realize how serious the situation is. "I feel woozy, my chest hurts a bit, I feel out of breath...' Maybe hearing that from a middle aged guy might cause one to suspect heart attack, but hearing that from a high school kid, you might tell him he's just coming down with something, sleep it off. Having him show you his watch with the heart beat saying 145, "Oh ****, get in the car, we are going to hospital!"
"...discovered after practice one day that he had pain in his chest and back when taking deep breaths, along with a rapid heart rate."
yeah, if it weren't for the Apple Watch, he would have ignored these symptoms.
yeah, if it weren't for the Apple Watch, he would have ignored these symptoms.
So is he gonna get invited to the White House, and will Microsoft send him several boxes of random gifts?
Heh. For me a 16GB iPhone is enough. I only use a few apps..a very light user. I have 5 or 6GB free on my device and haven't used more than a gigabyte of space on iCloud.
That's got to be the dumbest reason not to buy technology that I've ever heard. Say you don't like it. Say you can't afford it. Say you have no use for it. But don't say you're too lazy to slap the magnetic disk to the back when you take it off at night.
It is worth it. Why wait another year or two and put your health and fitness on hold? Treat yourself and live life!
Probably had one of his minions call the news outlet that broke the story. You know it is possible to get information on someone without violating your privacy oath.
Yeah, because it's so hard to feel the difference between a heart pulse of 55-60 and 100+.
Not sure about that. After all of the national news outlets shove this one down our throats for the next three days the Apple Watch is gonna blow up!
Reminds me of the time Steve Jobs called Noah Wyle's unlisted number.
http://fortune.com/2011/10/07/noah-wyle-on-playing-steve-jobs/
Yeah, they have their ways. *shrug*
Woah dude ... Really?!?!? Yes Kajje, 50 year old gay men love to convert teenagers to their gay way, which is why they shouldn't be teachers.
Thank you! I'm not sure if this works across the pond, but I use MyChart to tell my doctors about my stats, they can see everything via the Health app!
How do you figure this is just Apple PR? Do you have any evidence that Apple released the story, contacted the news, or asked the boy or his family to let it leak?
it qualifies him about as much as mounting a countdown timer face into the side of a briefcase, calling it a clock, and carrying it into a school would qualify someone to go to MIT.
But at least this kid had a genuine life threatening situation.
Actually, he probably would have ignored it, or at least held out longer, until maybe too late to do anything about it. He's a kid, and kids don't necessarily think, "chest hurts after getting pounded at football practice? Gee, I must be having a heart attack!"
Hell, there are adults who ignore serious symptoms, every day, all over the world.
I'm going to get off the cynical train that seems to be driving MacRumors lately, and state that I'm happy for him - happy that he got medical help, happy that Tim Cook reached out to him, and happy that instead of a funeral, his family has something cool to look forward to.
Nicely said. As a teenager myself when I feel abnormal pain I do worry, but then again I'm young and usually healthy and it's not likely to be something serious, on top of this like the other person said when I tell people they usually just reassure me I bruised something or something similar. Responses to kids in abnormal conditions are usually a LOT different than responses to adults. Glad this kid saw that number and got help, and glad he's causing a bunch of people to bicker on macrumors rather than being another football statistic.
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