Jason Perlow, ZDNet:
You could say this has been a very interesting summer. And one I would not like to repeat.
Go ahead and read the article. Wow. Yet another, very well documented, case of an Apple Watch alerting its owner to a medical condition that turned out to be life-threatening.
Terrific post.
i guess this means he can finally admit apple knows what it’s doing.
Not while he’s hanging out in the ZDNet cafeteria.
I’m not getting tired at all of hearing these stories.
The timelyness of this is amazing: I just got an AFib diagnosis yesterday. No watch involved although I was thinking about buying this year’s Apple Watch to catch what I now know was an arrhythmia issue.
I have to correct one thing in your comment… “Part of being a *human being* should be…”
The difference between when he hated it and when he loved it is that his life was saved. Many others were saved before, and many others will be saved after.
Part of being a tech journalist should be having enough empathy to pull your head from your ass without needing it to happen to you.
“And what about alarms for too elevated heart rate during sports?”
What about it?
I’m not sure I understand. What exactly is missing?
That’s true. You’re absolutely right. I guess I’m just running enough to know how to be in my safe HR zone. I’m not that adventurous. 🙂
Yeah.. I’m running everyday.
So you set a threshold yourself. Is that wise? A lot of factors could affect your HR reading, like not tightening the band enough.
The watch shows HR on Watch face when you run. You can look at that.
If you read the story, what Apple did is not one HR reading. There are many things involved and HR will be monitored for a period of times before the watch decide something is wrong. I would prefer this method. If your heart not good the watch will catch it you don’t have to run for it to know.
Ha, well, I have low expectations of the general population. But if we define “should” properly I totally agree. 🙂
The head offices are in NYC. I live in Florida.
Sometimes it requires an episode like that, and that is why I prefaced the piece with my initial bias.
No annual, in-person all-hands meetings? Fortunate.
Glad you’re alive, btw.
Then we have something else in common. 🙂
No, we’re all freelancers. And I am also glad I am alive.
Thanks for commenting, Jason. Please don’t take that as a personal attack. It’s a very common pattern, so it wasn’t meant that way at all.
Though I guess the head from ass bit was a little, heh. It was meant more humorously than as an insult. 🙂