Reality exceeds fiction. I have seen many detective series and movies, which solve cases in the most improbable way possible, but I have yet to see what this news explains.
Woman kidnapped by her ex-husband was found by police thanks to the location indicated on your Apple Watch LTE. This is also what the Apple smartwatch is for.
As reported today by the San Antonio Fox Network, Police in Selma, Texas were able to locate a woman who had been abducted
Police in Selma, northwest of San Antonio, Texas, received a call for help on Dec. 16 from a woman who was under attack in her home.
When the police arrived, they found only one girl who explained that her mother had been kidnapped by her ex-husband, Adalberto Longoria. They argued, he forced her into a truck and left without knowing where.
A quarter of an hour later the mother called her daughter from her Apple Watch LTE explaining that she asked for help, that she was kidnapped and that they were going to hurt her. The call was simply cut off.
Quickly the officers who were with the brood geolocalizaron el Apple Watch
Finally the next day was capture by police, and now faces a violent kidnapping charge.
So if you are going to buy an Apple Watch and you don’t know whether to choose between GPS or LTE, you already have one more reason to keep the second. You never know when they can kidnap you …