Apple's Emergency SOS via Satellite expands to six more countries this month
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- 27 Mar 2023
The 3nm M3 chip with a 40-core CPU will definitely deliver more visible power vs M2 generation. I think with the M3 chips Apple will enter the gaming space, and the newer generation Macs will have much better gaming benchmark scores and the overall FPS rates and performance vs prior gen M2 and M1 chips. M3 Macs will close gaming performance gaps vs Windows OS based platforms and RTX series gaming graphics cards. The current M2 has already made substantial progress in this regard, so M3 with 3nm chip infrastructure will again raise the bar very high.
There will be other performance improvements too that the M3 will offer if you are going to perform GPU-demanding tasks such as 3D graphic rendering or modeling, video and audio production, etc. Here too the next-gen M3 3nm process will offer up to 15% higher performance and 30% lower power draw versus N5. By comparison, N5P is a 7% improvement with 15% less power draw vs prior gen.
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- Rosie Riveter
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- 09 Mar 2023
Why putting Spacex's dragon in the picture???? why???
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- 09 Mar 2023
DanDare, 08 Mar 2023@JLC
Every car in Europe has crash detection and SOS cal... moreAnd a second remark to your post: the Crash detection itself has been there in every car since Airbags are mandated, The new EU ruling mandates to have the SOS in addition since 2018.
The stupid Crash Detection of Pixel phones and iPhones is just a joke compared to the real sensors built into every car.
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- JLC
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- 08 Mar 2023
Anonymous, 08 Mar 2023Why are you being so dumb? This is an S.O.S feature and not... moreI think the only one that now looks dumb is you:
"eCall (an abbreviation of "emergency call")is an initiative by the European Union, intended to bring rapid assistance to motorists involved in a collision anywhere within the European Union. The aim is for all new cars to incorporate a system that automatically contacts the emergency services in the event of a serious accident, sending location and sensor information. eCall was made mandatory in all new cars approved for manufacture within the European Union as of April 2018."
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- 08 Mar 2023
DanDare, 08 Mar 2023@JLC
Every car in Europe has crash detection and SOS cal... moreI live in EU which is on earfth and here is the short version of what the ruling requires:
"eCall (an abbreviation of "emergency call")is an initiative by the European Union, intended to bring rapid assistance to motorists involved in a collision anywhere within the European Union. The aim is for all new cars to incorporate a system that automatically contacts the emergency services in the event of a serious accident, sending location and sensor information. eCall was made mandatory in all new cars approved for manufacture within the European Union as of April 2018."
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- Anonymous
- TcV
- 08 Mar 2023
JLC, 08 Mar 2023Yes, but at least in Germany, almost all iPhone users I kno... moreWhy are you being so dumb? This is an S.O.S feature and not crash detection.
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- soul4ever
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- 08 Mar 2023
Luxembourg dont need it even belguim both country are small Luxembourg is 2500 km sq will any body lost ther lol
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- DanDare
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- 08 Mar 2023
@JLC
Every car in Europe has crash detection and SOS calling feature?
What planet it your version of Europe on? It certainly doesn't exist on this Earth.
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- JLC
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- 08 Mar 2023
Anonymous, 08 Mar 2023Every new car yes
But I can assure you half of the cars ... moreYes, but at least in Germany, almost all iPhone users I know have had cars equipped with Crash detection since a decade. All my own cars have had this since 2007.
The point is that you don't buy a phone for a feature that could be used once in your life time and only if you had an old car and you had a crash somewhere without any people around you. Instead of helping, this feature could be activated when you are on a roller coaster and could eat resources which could actually help someone really in need.
For me, both features are amongst the biggest gimmicks of the past decade built into a smartphone. A third gimmick was also introduced alongside the other two: the dynamic island.
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- 08 Mar 2023
JLC, 08 Mar 2023This feature is as useful as Apple's Crash Detection i... moreMy 2020 car does not have this, since it was not mandatory those days. Only a few percent of all EU cars have some SOS call system.
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- 08 Mar 2023
Kev, 08 Mar 2023The only place I could see myself using this is somewhere w... moreThen dont use it genius, not everything is for everyone lol.
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- 08 Mar 2023
JLC, 08 Mar 2023This feature is as useful as Apple's Crash Detection i... moreEvery new car yes
But I can assure you half of the cars out there is older than that rule, so they lack crash detection.
Maybe in 10 years that will be much higher.
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- Anonymous
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- 08 Mar 2023
Zuzuz, 08 Mar 2023The satellite surveillance is getting bigger🤗. When AI take over and go sentient, there's no hiding from them. Like Project Insight in Captain America haha
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- 08 Mar 2023
Anonymous, 08 Mar 2023Who's ever gonna end up stranded in Benelux to need to... moreThis feature is as useful as Apple's Crash Detection in Europe: every car must have crash detection including SOS which means even people without a phone and completely naked have Crash detection. Thank you Apple for such "brilliant" features🤣🤣🤣
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- Anonymous
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- 08 Mar 2023
Anonymous, 08 Mar 2023Who's ever gonna end up stranded in Benelux to need to... moreYou do know this service like all satellite services does work on sea.
You don’t have regular phone coverage on sea, even small one as that (unless very near land)
But aside from that, on land in Benelux it is pretty useless.
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- Kev
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- 08 Mar 2023
The only place I could see myself using this is somewhere with extreme terrain. For example, go camping in a valley with huge mountains on either side, blocking all networking. Then, it would be rather nifty to send messages with this feature. But honestly, this is 2023. Even if 5G isn't widespread, 4G and LTE are everywhere. I can't imagine this being useful in any place that doesn't have extreme geographies such as the Norwegian/Swedish mountains or the Alps. (Only European examples here, feel free to mention about the Himalayas or the Rockies elsewhere.)
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- 08 Mar 2023
Anonymous, 08 Mar 2023Who's ever gonna end up stranded in Benelux to need to... moresome idiot using Apple maps probably
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- 08 Mar 2023
Who's ever gonna end up stranded in Benelux to need to use SOS?