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Apple, stand behind your AFib diagnosis and incorporate a defibrillator in the Apple Watch Series 5. 

At least, folks won’t have to rush to the emergency room once their Apple Watch diagnoses them with AFib. They can defibrillate themselves, confirm that the AFib was converted to a sinus rythm with another EKG, and then happily go about their daily chores. 

ihatescreennames said:

Does this doorbell require a subscription or connecting to some service provided by Netatmo?

No. It has a built-in SD card reader that you can install up to 32 GB SD card in. Additionally, it can save footage to Dropbox and to an FTP server. There is no pay-for cloud storage offered by Netatmo.

This is how I would use the Series 4 watch. If I receive a notification of a possible AFib, I would immediately launch the EKG app and take a few consecutive EKG samples. If the EKG reports AFib, I would PANIC!

 Then, I would probably drive myself (or be driven) to an emergency room. I would not call an ambulance because the price of an ambulance ride is insane. You may end up paying thousands of dollars just for an ambulance trip. Believe me, it happened to me even though I had insurance.

At the emergency room, I would be at the mercy of their triage team, depending on what their views are of this new feature in the Apple Watch. Perhaps, in some emergency rooms, I would be put in the front of the line and immediately taken to the back for an EKG. It's also very possible that in other emergency rooms, I would be scoffed at for coming with this silly reason and placed at the end of line.

If the latter happens, I would probably be mad and worried for hours while waiting in the reception room for my turn. Then, I would probably wait in one of the rooms in the back for a few more hours until they finally come to do my EKG. Then, about three or four hours later (totaling 7-8 hours of waiting), a doctor (or most likely a PA) would show up and tell me that there may be a little deviation from the norm in my EKG and that I need to see a cardiologist. Two thousand dollars later, I will come home in the middle of the night, worried, upset, etc. 

The following day, I would call a cardiologist to make an appointment, and would go through the regular cardio checkup. 


I'm a little ambivalent about these new features. I'm sure there will be people whose lives it will save, but I'm afraid there will be people who will have a heart attack from a self-diagnosis. So for now, I will stick with my Series 3 watch.

AppleZulu said:

zoetmb said:

Unfortunately, this is the "journalistic" world we live in today.   Every website wants clicks and they get those clicks by turning everything into horror (much like local TV news does with weather).  If that means misleading editing of interviews, so be it.  

When "The Verge" publishes an article stating that people who have home blood pressure gauges also might have false positives and seek care when they don't need it, then I'll take them a little more seriously.   There's nothing wrong with people monitoring their own health.   It doesn't mean they rush to a doctor (if we have a problem in this country, it's that they don't).  It means they have a data point to tell their doctor the next time they go.   

It’s acually likely that the person will have lots of data points to share, rather than just one. While it’s just a single-lead ECG, the fact that it’s strapped to your wrist all the time means you’ll probably have lots of readings taken over time that you can share with your doctor, which is a benefit over a single reading taken just when the patient isn’t feeling well. There may be a lot of baseline information available that can help the doctor contextualize a concerning reading that prompts the visit.

You are not going to have a lot of EKG readings (samples) taken unless you repeatedly place your finger on the digital crown over the course of multiple days. The Apple Watch Series 4 doesn't take EKG samples by itself like it takes heart-rate samples and monitors for AFib.

radarthekat said:

avon b7 said:

ericthehalfbee said:

avon b7 said:

ericthehalfbee said:

avon b7 said:

Damage control and totally expected and logical. 

As usual he will be 'thrilled' to announce Apple's second largest revenue results with so many headwinds in place and that is also logical and expected.

Company wide things are not bad but iPhone needs to be looked at - closely.

iPhone needs to be looked at?

Bullshit.

Second quarter 2018. Apple got shunted out of second place in world shipments - for the first time since 2010.

Almost four years of flat sales and now very likely to announce a historic dip in unit sales coinciding with a revenue warning - on its blowout quarter.

2018 iterative upgrade to iPhone.

40% wiped off company value in just a few months.

Company health in general may be good. The iPhone needs to be looked at though. The Chinese iPhone market alone is of such vital strategic importance to Apple that the company formally admitted that any successful ban on iPhone sales in the Chinese market (as a result of QC's legal efforts) would mean Apple having no option to give up the fight against QC.

This post proves you are nothing but an outright liar.

Some links:

https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/2177931/apple-says-china-iphone-ban-would-force-settlement-qualcomm

http://www.financetwitter.com/2019/01/ouch-apple-has-lost-452-billion-dollar-thats-three-times-size-of-mcdonalds-or-the-entire-facebook.html

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13745/anandtech-year-in-review-2018-flagship-mobile/3

https://thenextweb.com/mobile/2018/08/01/huawei-snatches-the-2-spot-from-apple-in-the-global-smartphone-market/

Now it's up to you to support your accusations and tell me exactly where I lied because everything I bolded is either common knowledge or in the above links.

In third grade we learned about sets.  Remember?  One of these doesn’t belong with the others?  Stand up, AvonB, and tell the class how Apple lost $452 billion.  Apple had, and still has, about $250 billion in cash.  Was some of that lost?  Did they lose the Apple Park campus?  Which $452 billion did they lose?  And where did it go?    See, this is the reason you attract vitriol (it’s a word that means people don’t like you).  Because you either make up stories or you are too easy to believe the stories others make up.  Don’t worry though, Apple hasn’t lost $452 billion. In fact, even with their drop in revenue this last quarter, they still actually made billions in profits to add to their pile or use to buy back shares and pay dividends.  It’s going to be alright, I promise.   

Apple didn't lose $452 billion.