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Rayz2016 said:

SpamSandwich said:

Better to own and be trained with a firearm for self-defense than be killed and have one’s iPhone provide ‘witness data’ after the fact.

Or you could take firearms off everybody thereby reducing the risk all round. 

milleron said:

The thrust of this article is so exaggerated that I'd go so far as to label it "fake news." It's true that the Watch is capable of alerting people to cardiac arrhythmias, but to say that it "saved the life" of the teenage girl or the first poster who had previously undiagnosed atrial fibrillation is simply preposterous. It's virtually certain that the girl's illness would soon have become clinically obvious and unlikely (but not impossible) that the gentleman with a. fib. would have actually died without the Apple Watch.

I hope that my comments won't be taken to mean that the Watch's heart-monitoring function is flawed or not worthwhile. I don't mean to imply that at all. It's very worthwhile; I wish everyone had one on his or her wrist. It's just that we've been so sensitized to the evils of "fake news," that it feels irresponsible not to call it out when one sees it. Gross exaggeration simply opens up Apple (or whoever is peddling it) to charges of intentionally misleading the public, even when that's not the case. It's unwise and unfair inasmuch as it can create unrealistic expectations.

R.M, MD

zroger73 said:

I'm hoping for a male voice.

But, it'd be weird calling a dude "Alexa". (I know it can also be "computer", "Echo", or "Amazon", but it'd take me forever to get used to a new name for an existing device. It would be like changing my dog's name.)

But, it's 2018, so maybe not.