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We're all android and Linux here, but thank you!
Thank you. As a former IT guy, I've been trying to keep my family away from Apple products. They're way overpriced for their limited and locked down functionality compared to everything else out there.
My dad had Parkinson's late in his life and my sister replaced his Android with an iPhone, specifically so she could give him this fitness tracker. He spent the last few years of his life struggling to figure out a new phone, and we could never get the damn app to work anyway. He fell all the time and it never once reported it.
I spent 20 years in the IT field and getting my computer-illiterate family to consult me before buying computer tech is like pulling teeth. I offer them free consultation and support all the time and they just go out and buy spyware-riddled junk on their own. They only come to me when their stuff is no longer useable.
My sister finally stopped buying iPads... only for her to go and buy Amazon Fire tablets for her kids. I had to go in and lock them down because they were constantly shoving ads into every function of the tablet. Her kids kept trying to buy games because they were constantly being advertised to them. And guess who left their credit card credentials on the tablet?
My apologies, /rant.
It's funny; I recommend Apple stuff for practically all the same reasons you don't. The walled garden pisses me off sometimes but when I talk to friends using Android stuff and their gripes it really reinforces that I made the right decision for my family, just as you have for yours. What I find even more amusing is that I design embedded linux devices, all my servers/vms are Linux based and I really enjoy using Linux... just not supporting/using it as a primary UI.
Not shitting on your choices at all, I know that many people really like/enjoy the Android side as much as I do the Apple side. Chacun ร son goรปt and all that.
Brazenly praising Apple on lemmy? Ruin upon you, Andrew Appleton!
There are quite the number of fitness bands and watches that can do this too for android. No reason you cant set up a device to the opposite partners phone.
Good point. Thank you.
It's worth noting it will only work within Bluetooth range unless you pay for a separate 4g connection to the watch
Looks like the pixel watch 3 can do something like this, but it only calls emergency services (and plant l only in some regions!)
https://support.google.com/fitbit/answer/15250403?hl=en
Oh, many years ago I had a baby monitor that included a pressure mat. If it detected no movement for a while (it was sensitive enough to detect breathing) it set off an alarm.
Although if such a thing exists today, it probably requires an app and a subscription. Enshitification.
I had one of those too. Every so often, bad baby would scoot off the mat it 3am. Nothing like the absolute fucking panic of hearing that alarm going off when you're dead asleep and now halfway to juniors room before you wake up only to find he scooted off the mat. AGAIN.
I don't miss the pure anxiety of being a new parent. I had forgotten about that thing and I'm so glad it is a faded memory.