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  • Redditor would have died on the couch, if Apple Watch didn't sound the alarm

    Bart YBart Y
    This is another great example of how the Apple Watch is saving lives.  This guy was bleeding for a long while from the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum,cause unsaid but most commonly from chronic alcohol or NSAID use, sometimes via other medications as well.

    Same heart rate alerts will be useful for my own handicapped daughter who has had two GI bleeds from her middle and lower gut in the last year (short gut syndrome and chronic intestinal inflammation), the most recent in early January.   We’re getting her an Apple Watch 8 within the next two weeks.

    gregoriusmFileMakerFellerradarthekatqwerty52

  • Apple Watch ECG app helps save pregnant woman's life

    Bart YBart Y
    tyler82 said:
    The ECG stopped working on my watch a year after I bought it. 
    Well, did you take it to Apple to get the Watch checked out?  Did you delete or redownload the ECG app?  Did you update to a newer WatchOS version?  What did you do to get it checked?  If the sensor for heart rate or ECG failed, if under warranty or AppleCare would have addressed this.
    iOS_Guy80ilarynxwatto_cobralolliverjony0

  • Apple loses market share in China as iPhone shipment decline peaks

    Bart YBart Y
    lkrupp said:
    Okay, so this article from 12/27/2022 says Apple is GAINING marketshare in China.

    https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/12/27/iphone-gains-china-market-share-in-declining-smartphone-market

    Now this article says it is losing marketshare in China less than two weeks later.

    SO WHICH THE HELL IS IT, AppleInsider?

    I swear these goddamn analysts are so full of bull excrement their eyes are dark brown and bulging out of their skulls. 
    It’s relatively straightforward - the 12/27/22 report discusses JB Morgan / CAICT aggregated data for Sept. and October. 2022 data, showing the entire China smartphone market declined heavily, while Apple’s share, due to intro and good supply of iPhone 14’s of all models, declined less than the general market, thereby gaining market share in those months.  This isn’t particularly surprising as worldwide, low and midrange smartphone tiers are seeing declines and sales contractions while premium phones, and particularly iPhones saw good to great demand, probably iPhone 14 Plus excluded but more than made up by Pro & Pro Max models.

    The current article Jan 6, 2023 covers November China data only specifically.  IF Apple had full and normal Pro/Pro Max supply for China and worldwide, we would have seen more of the same, increased market share of iPhones vs entire (still shrinking) smartphone markets, and likely even to increased total iPhone shipments.  But because of the Chinese Covid shutdowns and related labor issues at the Zhengzhou Foxconn iPhone City factory, production and iPhone Pro/Pro Max supplies were rapidly depleted and constrained both for China and worldwide markets, leading to missed deliveries and lengthened delivery times.  This affected Apple’s relative market share in China leading to a slight 2% drop in market share because the rest of the China market dropped a whopping 34%, far outpacing iPhone declines.  

    As mentioned, the China market has a demand problem for Android’s low to Mid tiers (and probably premium tier too) in the face of good to too much inventory (can’t sell enough), while Apple has consistent to very good demand in China held back by supply disruption.  As many investors suggest, iPhone sales interrupted due to supply and delivery waiting tend not to be sales lost but sales delayed into next month (December assuming factory restart and ramp up to almost full capacity, which has happened) or into the Jan-Mar quarter.

    Hope this helps.


    blastdoorOfermuthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobrajas99

  • Early morning car thieves busted by AirPods & Find My

    Bart YBart Y
    JP234 said:
    Talk about a double-edged sword. Apple Insider will showcase the beneficial capabilities of Find My. But there exists a much darker use for Find My. Numerous people have been stalked and/or attacked by offenders using AirTags since they were introduced.

    It's getting more and more difficult for me to parse the benefit/cost ratio of modern electronics. Smart Phones are great multipurpose devices, but have caused literally thousands of injuries and deaths from misuse by motorists, and even pedestrians and cyclists unaware of their surroundings and walking into open manholes, or finding themselves someplace they shouldn't be. Add in the detrimental effects of the disinformation, racism, homophobia, xenophobia and anti-democracy messages abounding on social media platforms, and the benefit/cost ration is looking less and less balanced toward the benefit side.
    Humans are extremely good at taking tools intended for good and misusing them for all manner of bad, misleading, or even dangerous behaviors.  If humans decide to pay more attention to their devices than the normal task of walking, cycling or driving, that’s on them, not the device, unless you are advocating for the device to sense and become less or inoperative if in motion, which isn’t necessarily a bad idea.

    As for Social media, I don’t disagree, but mobile devices have followed the immobile computer in providing more convenient access.  Mobile devices did not create the opinions, words and thoughts of the people using it.  As it was with the first printed pamphlets, town criers, newspapers and books, dissemination of ideas and thoughts used the mediums of the day, it’s whether an educated (and I use that term loosely) public or electorate is capable of doing critical thinking that is the problem, not the devices themselves.  For sure, amplification of ideas occurs more rapidly with modern electronics, but again, it’s the people doing it and allowing it to be done to them.
    muthuk_vanalingamjony0

  • Apple Store goes down ahead of expected iPad launch

    Bart YBart Y
    Yep, if on IOS Apple Store App, it’s down.  If on Apple.com, hit buy for anything and it’s down too.  As of 6:30am PDT.
    watto_cobra