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Apple marketing machine in action: get local press to write up as a novelty feature that main competitor has had for ages.
by bt848 7y ago
Apple marketing machine in action: get local press to write up as a novelty feature that main competitor has had for ages.
- amiantos 7y agoPlease name this competitor that had fall detection ('for ages') that automatically messages emergency services for you?
- ogre_codes 7y agoThere are none (but you know this). Samsung is going to implement it "Sometime early next year" in their currently shipping version.
- bt848 7y agoGarmin. You know, the brand that is 100x more popular among bicyclists.
- Izkata 7y agoThis reads as though Apple did it first: https://fortune.com/2019/01/07/garmin-vivoactive-cellular-smartwatch/ https://fortune.com/2019/01/07/garmin-vivoactive-cellular-sm...
- elif 7y agoPoor wording I suppose. My garmin is prior to that one, and has fall detection by using my phone via Bluetooth. Not sure who had it first, but definitely before that 2019 Verizon model.
- FireBeyond 7y agoKinda. The part that they're referring to is it being Garmin's first device with cellular capability. But it's definitely vague around fall monitoring too.
- Izkata 7y agoI'm referring to this sentence, which has nothing to do with cellular capability: > Like the latest Apple Watch, which has a built-in fall detection system, the new Garmin watch also has a safety monitoring feature, which the company calls incident detection.
- skygazer 7y agoseveral garmin watches have had this feature since May (I think) of this year, requiring a paired garmin compatible phone, actively running garmin app, to work; sends text to selected contact about “incident.” Doesn’t appear to contact emergency services. https://www.garmin.com/en-US/blog/featured-2/safety-and-tracking-features https://www.garmin.com/en-US/blog/featured-2/safety-and-trac...
- kingosticks 7y agoThe 2015 Garmin Edge Explore 1000 bike computer has this feature. By all accounts it was/is implemented poorly and triggers erroneously all the time. If they'd made it call the emergency services they'd have got in a lot of trouble. Apple don't deserve any credit for the idea but deserve something for doing it well.
- Avamander 7y agoIf there's one thing Apple does well is reinventing the "wheel". Every single one of their product seems to be an improved iteration over some predecessor, I don't have any Apple devices though, I might be wrong.
- elif 7y agoMy garmin watch has it, ~3 yr old tech
- andrew7754222 7y agoHuawei is much better than Apple. Half the price for many new features. It's a matter of time before Huawei catch up on Apple with Chinese ingenuity