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by mips_avatar 979 days ago
I don't understand why Apple is adding satellite SOS to iphones but providing dangerously poor support for people in emergencies. There's a lot of situations in the backcountry where an injured person will survive 6 hours, but freeze to death after 10. Thank goodness for the emergency contact feature and that these climbers had a friend with enough skill to dispatch SAR. If Apple isn't careful they're going to have a front page story detailing how someone died an avoidable death because they dispatched an ambulance instead of search and rescue.