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   PositivDenken 🤯 (zeank@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 02:35:27 JST PositivDenken 🤯

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs it’s a total game changer for the hiking community and kills Garmin‘s inReach feature. Admittedly that’s just a tiny community not worth looking at from Apple‘s perspective. I guess

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @zeank @thomasfuchs I was thinking that as well in the first place but after thinking a bit more about how I use my Inreach, I now see it differently. The Inreach is always online and I can receive messages at all times and I have clipped the device on my backpack (“in reach”). When I have a serious accident in the mountains, I just want to press that one button and let the device work it out for me and not fiddle around with my soapy iPhone that needs to be held into the right direction.

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs @zeank you are right. This is definitely a use case for the new iOS feature! It may also be good for day tourists in the mountains because who wants to buy a dedicated (expensive) device for just a day hike?