“Jamal Khashoggi believed he was safe in Turkey,” Reuters reports. “Khashoggi, a veteran Saudi journalist and newspaper editor, had lived in exile in Washington for more than a year, writing a column for The Washington Post in which he regularly criticized his country’s crackdown on dissent, its war in Yemen and sanctions imposed on Qatar.”
“He said he could write freely in the United States in a way that was impossible at home, according to friends and colleagues, but he was increasingly worried that Riyadh could hurt him or his family,” Reuters reports. “In Turkey, though, Khashoggi had friends in high places, including some of President Tayyip Erdogan’s advisers. So when he walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 2, he hoped the appointment would be brief, a simple bureaucratic task that would allow him to marry his Turkish fiancee, whom he had met four months earlier… Friends and family have not seen him since.”
“Turkish officials have said they believe Khashoggi, 59, was killed inside the consulate. Saudi Arabia has strongly rejected the accusation,” Reuters reports. “Saudi Arabia has sent a team of investigators to work with Turkish authorities and ‘chase every lead to uncover the truth behind his disappearance.’ Two senior Turkish officials revealed the existence of an object that may provide important clues to Khashoggi’s fate: the black Apple watch he was wearing when he entered the consulate. The watch was connected to a mobile phone he left outside, they said.”
‘Tech experts say an Apple Watch can provide data such as location and heart rate,” Reuters reports. “But what investigators can find out depends on the model of watch, whether it was connected to the internet, and whether it is near enough an iPhone to synchronize.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: So, if the Apple Watch was able to communicate heart rate information to the iPhone, things like elevated heart rate could be determined as well as a lack of heart beat, but you’d never know if that was due to removing the Apple Watch (something most users don’t normally do during the day, we presume based on our own usage patterns: Onto the wrist upon awaking, off the wrist and onto the charger when going to sleep.)
Of course, location information from the Apple Watch would be very valuable here, but without the Apple Watch itself, it’s all down to when and if it could communicate with the iPhone that Khashoggi left outside the consulate.
Other headlines MDN breathlessly reposts in effort to make the fashion watch seem like a desireable purchase:
Apple Watch revives Old Yeller
Fallen Child Teleported from Well with Magic Apple Watch
Apple Watch Cures Cancer (If You Subscribe to iCloud)
Notification Dependent Man Saves 0.0001 Second Thanks to Apple Watch
Complications Are Good, Reprises Michael Douglas as Wall Street Tech Fad Salesman
James Bond Wears Apple Watch, SCEPTRE Still At Large
B-Grade Movie Actor with NRA Endorsement Wears Apple Watch In Public, MDN Cheers
A-Grade Movie Actor with Liberal Leanings Has Fitbit, Therefore MDN Wishes Him Ill Will
Microsoft Sets New Income Record, MDN Labels Them Beleagered Because No Surface Watch Exists
Apple Watch Series 2 Sets Goodwill Resale Price Record for Used Watches
Entire Continent of Africa Saved by Koch-Donated Apple Watches
Olympic Sprinter Sets 100 Metre Dash Record Backwards Thanks to Apple Watch
Aussie Swimmer Scares Off Shark With Apple Watch
MDN Launches New Website, Trump And Apple Watch News
Tim Cook Spotted Wearing Exclusive New Watch Band
Apple Watch Gains 3 New Independent Apps for 2019
Celebrity Doctor Claims Apple Watch Might Save A Life Someday If No Telephone Is Available
Rabid Right Senator Proposes Bill To Track All People Who Don’t Look American With Apple Watch, Cook Caves
Defense Contractors Corporations Mandate Employees Must Be Location Tracked With Apple Watch At All Times, McConnell Rewards Them With No-Bid Military Contracts
Donny Jr. Loses Apple Watch, Demands Government Provide Him a New One
Donny Sr. Attempts to Tweet with Apple Watch, Hilarity Ensues Covfefe
NRA Proclaims Apple Watch Is Most Innovative Weapon, A Must Buy
Theresa May Seen In Paris Apple Store Looking At Apple Watch
Cook Closes Down Apple Stores, Says All Shopping Can Be Done On Apple Watch
Apple Watch Proposed by McConnell To Be Dictator For Life, Says Nothing Could Be More American and Good For The Republican People
North Korea Strikes California With Nukes, Apple Watches From Dead Californians Now On Ebay At Great Prices
… you amuse yourself, but the feeling isn’t mutual.
Looks like you need to get a life, bud.
Sure, because a real life involves being a shill for fashion and electronics that nobody needs and most people don’t want. Go back to Mac news. You were relevant then.
Apple Watch is the best-selling timepiece in the world. Given its average sales price and typical Apple margins, it is making more money every day than most of us will earn in a lifetime. I’m sure that really burns the multitude who suggested it would be a failure. More than that: you can swim while wearing one, which is hard to do while wearing a really practical timepiece, like a sundial.
Isn’t mutual for you…
You don’t speak for everybody.
It’s a good thing you did not mention that the Apple watch could help find that missing weapons of mass destruction program in Iraq, or help stop the slaughter there cause those MDN mods would be right on you. I guess they don’t like facts being used around here too much so you should be all right.
Right On Mike! The Onion could use these for months.
Cellphones and all personal electronics interfere with aircraft instruments causing plane to fall from sky.
Next up: iPad finds Jimmy Hoffa….
“Touchdown” Jimmy Hoffa
Lazy eddy Cue’s apple watch should give out data on eddy’s Diet and alcoholic consumption, and the data wont be impressive
You are not likely to find the guy if he and his watch went through the woodchipper.
He is cat food by now.