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[deleted] t1_j02ouip wrote

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BobisaMiner t1_j02qo3a wrote

Yeah, I'm sure it was the crash detection and not the fact that his wife suddenly screamed while driving and the conversation stopped suddenly. And it wasn't a matter of life and death, the crash was light according to the article.

>He was on a phone call with her when he heard her scream — and the line went dead.

from the article.

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ProtoplanetaryNebula t1_j02qzvv wrote

It would have still been the crash detection guiding him to the GPS location of the crash.

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FireLucid t1_j04jbvk wrote

The crash detection also sends GPS deets to someone? I hadn't heard that.

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ProtoplanetaryNebula t1_j04jqfm wrote

It sends GPS location to emergency services and your emergency contacts, otherwise what would be the point? “Your wife has crashed, somewhere on planet earth. Good luck!”

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FireLucid t1_j04la78 wrote

I mean, yes of course to emergency services, didn't know about the emergency contacts.

To be fair, I didn't really look into the details of how Apple did it since Google did this a few years ago (I have a Pixel). I completely forgot about the emergency contacts bit. Just checked and I have it set up with my wife already. Oops.

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ProtoplanetaryNebula t1_j04lo6x wrote

How long before we hear about the first idiot who sets his iPhone to send a crash notification out to his wife and his mistress?

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Ok-disaster2022 t1_j02r7ei wrote

Honestly, these kinds of features make me almost want to finally buy an apple device, but then I recall I don't want to create an apple account.

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HillarysFloppyChode t1_j03jni6 wrote

I used to be hard core android, but honestly iPhones are just better. No half baked features with a bloat filled OS over it and I Always get the latest updates, the carrier doesn't control them.

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Bonus, when I did the Satellite SOS demo, one of the options is towing and breakdowns, thats useful as fuck.

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cichlidassassin t1_j041eyt wrote

your entire first paragraph is just....buy a pixel

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your second paragraph, the Sat stuff is cool

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BuriedUnderTheDirt t1_j04d9fa wrote

The whole basic idea of a phone is to make calls and send text messages

Everything else is just a nice to have

The google pixel is well known for a having a glitch that disables calling, I think to emergency lines only but thats worse.

So its a phone that can glitch out and disable half the phones primary functions

And its like they keep fixing it but it keeps coming back, by this point I wouldn’t be surprised if pixel is on the way to the google graveyard

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Shadycrazyman t1_j02ytq3 wrote

Why not?

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TheBarkingFish t1_j031i67 wrote

Their app store is hyper restrictive.

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SirBeercules t1_j033pd6 wrote

what are u needing that's restricted by the apple app store?

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johnny_fives_555 t1_j035a0a wrote

Pornhub app and probably some kodi variant for pirated content.

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GnomeOnALeash t1_j03c1zl wrote

Can’t argue with that.

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johnny_fives_555 t1_j03cc04 wrote

And frankly unlike 2010, you can achieve an app experience w/ mobile sites. You really can do it all w/ an iOS device. Including playing and saving emulated games.

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User9705 t1_j03lfzq wrote

I just play remote steam and call it a day with a pa5 controller via iPhone, iPad and Apple TV

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Tyfyter2002 t1_j03kr8y wrote

Customization, apps made by developers with limited budgets, support for all file types, and even apps which aren't allowed on any app store like YouTube Vanced

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Itsallgood190 t1_j032a3u wrote

I have iPhone and Android tablet. Problem solved

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User9705 t1_j03ln66 wrote

I have an iPhone and two android phones. I turn the android phones on, update them, play with them and then Reminds me why I don’t use them. It’s a 90 days typical cycle.

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TheBarkingFish t1_j032h66 wrote

Okay? Did you want a prize?

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Itsallgood190 t1_j032ll5 wrote

I’m just giving a suggestion for someone who made it appear that it was impossible to have the best of both worlds.

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BroMatterhorn t1_j033lnu wrote

Sure, but it’s a pretty good one still. This isn’t 2010 where you want a new app every day, most people already know what apps they need and every once in a while, might get a new one if it’s popular.

For the 0.01% you can’t get via the App Store, there are “work arounds” already if you need them.

At the end of the day all the app stores kind of suck for some reason or another.

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0verlimit t1_j035d4v wrote

I’m surprised people care that much about apps nowadays. I’ve definitely tapered down from years ago where I was going crazy with phone games and just pretty much only use social media apps nowadays.

I remember I used to be crazy with stuff like widgets and themes when I had an android or jailbroken iphones but I realized I can’t be bothered to do any of that anymore.

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Pixelatorx2 t1_j0399jf wrote

Yeah, most people nowadays have had phones for long enough that there isn't much novelty to messing around with apps or widgets.

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Personally, even though Apple has mostly caught up with respect to hardware, there are still quite a few software features Apple does not support:

  • FireFox mobile adblocker
  • Game emulation
  • Root access
  • Support for more USB devices
  • Always-On-Display tweaks
  • YouTube Vanced

If they fixed some of these, it'd be a much closer decision.

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lowtoiletsitter t1_j03wmbp wrote

You can download FireFox and integrate the adblocker into safari (unless we're talking about two different things/situations)

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Pixelatorx2 t1_j03yzg9 wrote

Oh, cool. I didn't know Safari had an adblocker, that's pretty neat. I still don't think that solution allows for Firefox w/ adblocker, which is what I use on desktop / android, so I'd want my data to sync.

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lowtoiletsitter t1_j041wax wrote

Yeah safari integration is adblock only, but you can just use FireFox on its own and it'll sync. If you want to use FF as your default browser you can do that too

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Goodbye_Games t1_j03gq4x wrote

It happens a lot more than people realize. Especially when the watch is in play too. Often in impacts that are require the full support of all the public services, phones will get away from the drivers or passengers. The older button press to alert on the watch way was a sure fire solution to get someone to your exact location quickly. I’ve had patients come into the ER with the watch screen shattered and the phone screen shattered, but the service still worked and they were found in some east jesus knees rural setting in the dark and wreaked.

I’m going to need to look at the statistics since it is something we track (that they were responded to by automated phone services), but it does have a small error margin since our cardio patients with pacemaker/cardioverters/life vests all go home with a 4g monitor. I know that I’ve personally been involved in around 30 calls this year that involved the cellphone being the saving grace in an MVA. Not sure how many going back 5 or 6 (can’t remember when it actually started) years since apple started doing the SOS button press.

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