As with everything, there is some give and take, but one point in favor of something like a watch doing fall detection is a potentially better anti-false-positi

As with everything, there is some give and take, but one point in favor of something like a watch doing fall detection is a potentially better anti-false-positive detection. Set your life alert pendant down on the dresser a little hard and it may think you've fallen, and maybe you don't hear the callback for verification, so you get a visit from the police in your shower after they've forced the front door open. This happened to my grandfather ;-). The Apple Watch should be able to correctly avoid a false fall detection in that situation because you will have taken it off your wrist (though not strictly necessary since it is waterproof) and it knows that it's not on your wrist.