The Apple Watch has become one of the favorite devices of users of the Apple brand, for different reasons, however, there is a man who can say that the popular smartwatch saved his life.
This is Dan Pfau, an American man who recently claimed that the Apple device saved his life after fainting and hitting his head on the ground.
The history
According to the medium Boston Globe, Dan Pfau is a 70-year-old man who, on more than one occasion, the Apple Watch has saved his life, for which he is very grateful for the device.
The management consultant revealed that two years ago he was rescued from a bicycle accident after his Apple Watch called 911. When he woke up in the ambulance he could not remember anything. “Pfau doesn’t even remember calling 911, because he didn’t. The watch did it, ”notes the outlet about the fall detection function which was introduced with the Apple Watch Series 4 in 2018.
However, on a more recent occasion, Pfau faced an “even more terrifying” accident, as the man has a long history of sudden fainting spells, but in the most recent one he ended up hitting his head hard on the wooden floor, beginning to bleed significantly. .
The 70-year-old man could not move due to the great pain he felt, so he decided to use the dictation function on Apple Watch to be able to call his wife, who was fortunately at home at the time.
Why not dial 911? The man was still conscious, so it was he who decided to touch the icon on his watch screen to indicate that he was okay when the device asked him.
“I figured it wasn’t that bad, which is my natural reaction,” he said. However, it wasn’t long before he realized that he wasn’t right after all, so Pfau launched the watch’s texting app, tapped the microphone icon, and dictated a message to his wife, who was down.
Although the situation was serious, the man managed to be transferred to the hospital quickly, where they had to give him nine stitches to close the cut on Pfau’s forehead and stay for four days in intensive care for a fractured vertebra in the neck.
“The doctors said I was very lucky not to have paralysis,” said Pfau, who arrived at the hospital on another helicopter trip. “My wife laughed that I was trying to rack up frequent flyer miles by helicopter,” he said.
The Boston Globe interviewed Brad Weiner, one of the doctors who treated Pfau at the hospital, and he assured that he was not the first patient to save his life thanks to a smart watch.
Other cases in favor of the Apple Watch
In early August, a man reported that he was able to call for help after a car accident using the smart assistant if Apple Watch. In June another case went viral where a smart watch saved a man’s life after alerting his relatives to an accident.
As well as these stories there are dozens more, which, unfortunately, have become more common since the arrival of the Apple device in 20215.
According to figures from Above Avalon, the number of Apple Watch users worldwide surpassed 100 million in 2020, under a growth that although it cannot be considered constant, continues to accelerate in terms of adoption rates year on year since its appearance in 2015.
In addition, Apple Watch market share continues to lead after occupying the dominant position throughout 2020 as shipments of wearable devices grow. In 2021, the company established a strong retention on handheld unit shipments at 28.8 percent in the first quarter of 2021.
It is important to say that Apple was not the great inventor of smartwatches, because before its arrival on the market of wearable health and fitness devices, the Fitbit brand had been a leader since the beginning of 2014, when the company had a 45 percent percent of market share.
For the third quarter of 2014, Xiaomi appeared on the market, gaining some share, which grew exponentially in the first quarter of 2015, until Apple appeared in the second quarter of the same year and took over the market.
The future of smart watches
It is clear that the market for smart watches remains one of the most promising within the wearable device industry, with global shipments of these products expected to increase to 115 million units by 2022.
The number is no small thing considering that in 2017, global shipments of smart watches were just 42 million units, so in four years this market has doubled its role in the market.
The smartwatch industry ranks second in shipments of wearable device forecasting units worldwide, behind only Ear-Worn or hands-free devices, according to data from Statista.
However, the market seems to have a favorite: Apple Watch. Well, in 2020, the technology company made unit shipments of wearable devices of around 151.4 million units, while Fitbit, the leading company in 2014, had a decrease in its shipments to just 12.9 million units.
Although the American company has great competitors, who enter year after year, mainly from China, the truth is that Apple has managed to position itself as the favorite option of much of the market in terms of smart watches we speak.
If we include cases like Dan Pfau’s, where a human being says that the Apple brand managed to save his life, there is no doubt that the device will continue to seem attractive to many and there will be those who will become loyal consumers of future editions.
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