Company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), is obliged, starting from January 1, 2017, to offer in all its iPhones a so-called panic button, a law passed in India obliging all smartphone manufacturers to have such a feature in their marketed products.
India is one of the extremely important markets that Apple is trying to conquer, so it will definitely respect the new law, the panic button calling the emergency services and sending them the GPS coordinates in case the user needs help.
According to the law, smartphones must have a dedicated panic button or have a new gesture for the close button, the Power button, which allows emergency services to be contacted when the user is in dire need of help.
Although everything seems complicated, in reality the Apple company could implement in iOS 10 a new gesture for the close button that could call the emergency services and send them data about our location, the function immediately reaching all his iPhones.
Minister of Communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad has signed an order mandating the facility of a panic button and in-built global positioning system (GPS) from January 1, 2017, and January 1, 2018, respectively.
Considering that the panic button must be activated without touching the screen, which could crack in the event of an accident, the only solution for Apple is the close button, especially since the iPhone 7 will have a tactile Home button, so using it would violate the law.
Until January 1, 2017, the methods of implementing the interconnection between smartphones and emergency services should be established, so that Apple has time to put everything in order and offer this function next year.
Considering that the panic button has to be implemented only from 2017, Apple could offer it in India starting from iOS 10.1, but could offer a global version of it at the same time, if it cooperates with other countries to help users.
