The iPhone fanboys now have a devastating bit of ammunition to pull out against their Android counterparts, as an iPhone CPR app has helped save the life of a young basketball player.
According to the LA Times, Xavier Jones was playing high-school basketball when his heart stopped due to a pre-existing medical condition. Luckily, coach Eric Cooper and John Osorno had been trained in CPR and used the Phone Aid iPhone CPR app to help revive the 17-year-old basketball player.
The night before, Cooper had fortuitously downloaded an application to his cellphone that gives real-time instructions on how to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Jones remembers nothing of his collapse last week, but when he awoke from a medically induced coma 24 hours later, family and friends explained that he suffered from cardiac arrest.
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“It was really fresh and clear in my brain,” he [Cooper[ said. “We are trained in CPR, but the iPhone app was a stabilizer for us.”
The iPhone CPR program is only $2, so you may want to download it on your device just in case. I do have to warn you though, as one comment says this app doesn’t tell users to check for a pulse before doing chest compressions, which could lead to some hairy situations.
Sure, the iPhone CDR app was able to save a life but Android fans have a few app stories of their own to counter this. It just came out that the Lookout Mobile program was able to use its GPS-phone-tracking capabilities to hep police track a stolen car. That’s pretty good.
Both stories show how much power having these little, Internet-connected computers in our pockets can be.
Any of you have a wonderful app-related story out there? Let us know your best tale in the comment and we’ll republish the best ones.
[Via LA Times]