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Has the Apple Watch improved your life? Or is it just a hedonistic luxury for you? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Snoo52211@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch

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If so, in what way?

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[–] manateefourmation@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

It saved my life 2 months ago. Had a massive fall during a free solo (solo) hike. The watch knew I fell, sent 911 my name and my precise geotagged location (I have the ultra and it uses 2 GPS bands - so crazy accuracy. It also sent my location and that I fell to my family.

I had many serous broken bones and was losing blood. EMS was at my location in 6 minutes. My family - through watch sent alerts - tracked me in the ambulance to the hospital. The watch would report my location to them as I was moving. They literally knew what hospital to got to because they were getting Apple texts. I was in surgery when they got to the hospital, but they were there to see me in recovery!

So in my view for anyone who is not a couch potato, it’s become a potentially life saving tool.