10 seconds is way too short for skiers. When you're on the slopes most people are wearing gloves that aren't touchscreen friendly and the watch is probably also sandwiched between a base layer and the outer ski jacket which makes vibrations hard to feel and notice. And when you finally notice, you need to come to a safe stop where you won't be a danger/obstacle to anybody coming down behind you, take off your glove so you can interact with the touchscreen, and finally cancel the call.

Somebody didn't think this one through and I think Apple needs to go back to the drawing board on this one.

Better than being made with dragoflies.

Oled screens are reflect prone.

Apple had a net income of almost 100 billion for FY 2022. They can certainly afford to pay the workers more or at the very minimum, improve working conditions. In fact Ide wager by doing that they would actually sell more products by breaking the mold.

I know this issue transcends Apple, im only using them as the article is about Apple. Plus they are one of the most consistently profitable companies.

I mean it’s the shift I’m givin lol

Truth, brother. Kids on Reddit are so sheltered that they don't know what life is like in the poorer countries. They never do backbreaking farming without machinery so they just don't understand. They should go talk to immigrants in the Western world to see how much they prefer capitalist factory jobs over the traditional agricultural jobs.

Me too. That’s why whenever I go for a day hike I bring a gallon of water, a sleeping bag, several days of food, make shift shelter, a sat phone, a water filter, some fire starter, bear mace, a couple flares, a hatchet, a gun, a first aid kit, and most importantly a full change of clothes in case I get wet.

Don’t know why everyone doesn’t do this for every hike they go on

1 device > 2 devices in most instances.

If people were always prepared for everything the world would be a much better place. But they aren’t, and apple’s SOS feature will likely save lives

Probably people that go out hiking solo

Diamonds are made in the blood mines, people still buy them. I don’t think the consumers care. They shouldn’t.

The onus is on Govts that too are in the pockets of these billionaires. You shouldn’t expect a common man to change the world and their habits.

My Pixel has car crash detection. One feature of it that I like, is the phone tries to interact with me first. Then, if I don't respond, it will contact emergency services.

My Galaxy watch does similar. After a hard fall, it sounds an alarm & vibrates for 60 seconds, then calls my emergency contact if I don't disable it.

Can anyone with Apple products verify if they operate the same way? Or do they just immediately call emergency services?

Edit: article says Apple gives 10 second to cancel the 'emergency.' Maybe software should lengthen this slightly, or try harder to notify the user.

The counter to that, would be the free market has to compensate by increasing wages elsewhere in order to draw people to them. Win-win for people, loss loss for Corporations. And the government is run by corporations so we know something like this will not happen

Depends on the company, they could simply pay people the same, and likely get a higher quality of work, or they could pay people half, expect a low quality of work. I would wage that most corporations would not choose to cut the work time in half double the pay and take the losses from their profits. But I think it would make for much happier workers, and a far better product

This will probably be an unpopular opinion, but I failed to see what is wrong with this.

There will always be shitty jobs needing to be done. And the way these shitty jobs get the workers are through proper compensation, and these workers get paid much more than other jobs available.

Before being called that I don't understand what they go through, I've been to Foxconn factories. Workers work in clean, A/C facilities with high-tech environment doing monotonous, boring as fuck jobs. But these people work jobs that are the envy of others, and there are always lines of workers dying to get into Foxconn because it pays that much better than anything else.

And as another redditor commented, factory jobs are the same everywhere, whether it is China or North America.

I also work in a factory, in health and safety.

The IT department seems to be seriously thankless at my place. Most of what they do is sit and monitor screens spitting out data feeds.

Until something important breaks, then whoever is unlucky enough to answer their phone at 3am gets called in to work 14+ hours until the problem is fixed and everything connected to it has been re-tested.

Also, quite a few of our IT people are much older than one might expect. They’ve been with the company since it’s heyday in the late 80s to mid 90s. Most of our manufacturing equipment is from Europe, much is outdated, some machines still run with floppy disks, and the only certified techs remaining live in Italy or Finland or whatever the machines were made. We can pay the insane cost of flying them in, or IT can learn the stuff and try to figure it out.

Probably not, apple is just by far the most polarising tech company, which makes it good for clicks.

OTOH (just being argumentative) if the government comes in and makes people's lives comfortable even when the local economy sucks, then we're subsidizing certain choices being made by people. I don't live in a small town with few choices for employment. For a reason.

First of all, I'm Canadian.

I pay increasingly more in taxes for increasingly diminishing services.

I pay extra on my paychecks to my group insurance plans so that I can replace those diminishing services.

This is not FREE. Yes, I won't be bankrupt if I don't have insurance, but it all comes at a cost, no matter how you spin it.

I wait 3-6 months for a consultation for treatment, after waiting up to a month go see my GP. If I need supplemental examinations, treatments or surgery, I can wait another 6-18 months for that surgery. I'm lucky enough to live in Ontario where wait times are the lowest in the country. Thank God I don't live in PEI where my mother has been waiting since before covid for her surgery. Thank God I'm not a native living on a reserve in the middle of bumfuck-nowhere.

Here's a demonstration of how good our free service is right now: My wife's aunt just spent the last month in the HALLWAY of a hospital wing waiting for a diagnosis of why she couldn't remember what was her own name was, AFTER receiving DAY surgery that she waited over six months to get. So now we have incompetence on top of poor service.

I worked an office job (IT admin) where my main home base was a commercial print location. You’re spot on. The only job in the shop that seemed interesting was die cutting, but otherwise there’d be people called in for 12-hour shifts on a rush job so they could ship a few pallets of saddle-stitched brochures out. Then you wouldn’t see the saddle-stitch guy for 3 days, then he’d get called in. Pressmen and 2nd pressmen would complain a lot because the traditional setup is 3 operators but they managed to cut that to 2 jobs with the 2nd pressman playing a sort of jack of all trades mode. Long shifts of hearing the machines click away, hot or cold depending on season, lower pay than you’d expect for a trade with no raises in sight, etc. Manufacturing anything can take a lot of labor and I’m not shocked by what’s in the article, I think most people just haven’t been exposed to the pace and conditions of factory/logistics life.

Typo, should be of not if

Fuck I work 13 hours 6 days a week. I also make 14k a month take home doing it tho so it's a trade off.

It also helps that most socialized medicine nations are much more conducive to healthy living.

Those quaint, beautiful, amazing walkable cities, towns and villages in Europe are largely the result of their being built when feet were the primary mode of travel. Fun fact; the much vaunted German Army of WWII primarily walked into combat and its heavy equipment (artillery) was horse drawn.

It is one thing I really miss living back in the US. Here I have to get in the car to go to a store. Any store. For anything. It is bonkers. I went from walking 6-9 miles a day to a fraction of that. I have to be intentional about exercise; dedicating large portions of my time to the achingly boring and tedious exercise of… exercise. Blech.

What phone do you use?

If the super powers what.

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