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  • NTSB lays partial blame on Apple for fatal Tesla crash involving employee

    linkmanlinkman
    Apple does not need to include a statement of no cell phone use while driving in their policy. They stated that they expect employees to follow the law. That's enough. If it's not, then they need to explicitly state things like:

    "Do not run over pedestrians while driving." If they don't state this then apparently the NTSB will call them out on it after an employee hits a pedestrian.

    "Do not put your fingers into a blender when it is plugged in." If they don't state this then apparently the Consumer Product Safety Commission or OSHA will call them out on it after someone cuts a finger off while making a smoothie in the break room.
    baconstangrandominternetpersonFileMakerFellerbeowulfschmidt

  • Apple Watch helps save the life of teen athlete in Oklahoma

    linkmanlinkman
    milleron1 said:
    Rayz2016 said:
    ivanh said:
    How many lives had not been saved even though they were wearing Apple Watch? 
    What’s the percentage of life saved wearing an Apple Watch?

    If you don’t provide the figures together, merely saying that “an Apple Watch saved another life” is a disgraceful advertisement.

    Don’t hard-sell it, please.
    Well that’s the most ridiculous post I’ve read in a while. In your desperation to ding Apple you didn’t spend a second thinking through the nonsense you were about to write. 

    When Apple includes some sort of butthurt detector I’ll take you off the idiot list again to let you know. 
    Perhaps your comment is in the running for "most ridiculous." If YOU think about it, you'll know that it is impossible to obtain the data outside of a large, expensive, prospective study. That is precisely the reason why Ivanh pointed out that without knowing how effective the Watch is for this purpose it's a shameless advertisement -- it is meant to prompt people to purchase the Watch without providing any data to show that it's truly efficacious for this purpose. Right now, we don't know if it detects 90% of the episodes of SVT or 0.090% of them. Moreover, teen athletes won't die from a pulse of 190; it approximates their pulse during strenuous activity, so stating blatantly that it "saved the life" of this kid is a deliberate misrepresentation, another factor that makes it a disgraceful advertisement. I have a 4th gen Apple Watch, I'm an MD, and I do believe that it's a worthwhile feature, but I think that reports like this one, and we've seen several, are generally intentionally misleading and therefore "disgraceful."
    Are you saying that the kid's surgery was unnecessary (i.e.: not life-saving)?
    Bart Y

  • iCloud.com update adds native mobile browser support for Android and iOS

    linkmanlinkman
    Long overdue. It was probably embarrassing in Apple stores for the employee to direct people to use one of their Macs to access it because it wouldn't work/was tough to work using the iOS browser.
    dysamoriafrantisekwatto_cobra

  • What the EU mandate for a common smartphone charger means

    linkmanlinkman
    bala1234 said:
    lkrupp said:
    Apple will, of course, do what is necessary to comply with the EU regulations coming. It’s just sad that it has come to this, a bunch of clueless bureaucrats deciding what’s in the best interests of their subjects. And believe me, it won’t stop with chargers. There’s a reason not much technology innovation comes out of Europe.
    While I share your concern of 'overbearing attitude' and 'slippery slope', I do look forward to day when I can have one charger for all my phones laptops and tablets...
    "One size fits all" is a terrible principle. The 16-inch MacBook Pro comes with a 96 watt adapter, which is $79 in the US. The iPhone 8 comes with a 5 watt adapter, which is $19 in the US. I would hate to be required to purchase such a large and expensive adapter with my phone just so it can also serve as a laptop power supply. Also note that a properly designed power supply will be the most energy efficient when used as close as possible to its rated capacity.

    While I don't know what your mix of phones, laptops, and tablets you have now but it's likely that you could use a single charger for all of them if coupled with the proper end or cord adapters.
    razorpitrandominternetpersonwatto_cobra

  • Apple rolls out improved Maps to all users in the US

    linkmanlinkman
    I would be mostly satisfied if AM just gives me the correct directions each time. I'm by no means a frequent user of it, but I have had several times in the past two years where it directs me to a totally wrong location -- which I only found out after attempting to drive there and get into an endless loop once I'm close to what AM thought was the destination. Not encountered recently, but I also hope they fixed the problem where it would provide directions to an identically named place that is 1000+ miles from my current location instead of the one that is <5 miles from my current location.
    williamlondonJWSCindieshackOfermicrobe