![]() ![]() ![]() As of 2013, Android had 77.8% of the worldwide market share, while iOS had 17.8%. Right now, it’s is only available on Android. They get a couple hundred downloads a week, and are now just shy of 10,000 total. But if you record video, you’ll get about 85% of the phone’s normal battery life.Īlibi launched publicly in January, and Saleh said it’s done much better than they hoped. If you keep audio recording, have it take one photo a minute, and tag your geolocation, there’s no measurable effect on battery life. The video is relatively low quality but captures a lot, Saleh said, and the geolocation picks up once every 15 minutes. Most Android phones pick up a four to six foot radius, and the images are just shy of HD quality. The default setting for Alibi is to record audio, images, and geolocation. Saleh said he sees Alibi as a tool to record many types of situations, including “police overreaching, police brutality, protests…often times we’ve heard from the comments section they see themselves using it for workplace sexual harassment, bullying in school, car accidents.” Alibi is meant to be passive because of that. And, pulling out a phone and pressing record in say, the instance of a traffic stop? Most of the time, that’s going to irk the cop. “We’re seeing a lot of this more and more, but for every instance that is recorded, there are 10 that aren’t,” Saleh said. There was the shooting death of unarmed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri the choking of Eric Garner on the streets of New York City, caught on video, in which the officers were not charged and the South Carolina police officer who shot an unarmed black man (which did end in an indictment). The app couldn’t be any more timely, as the sensitivity to police brutality is at an all-time high. “The truth is we know what we want to keep after the fact, we don’t know before.” “The idea is that we all walk around all the time with the tools that we need to document our lives, the only real reason we can’t is the amount of data that it encompasses,” Saleh said. Every hour, it deletes what’s been recorded unless you save it. Start it up, and it records audio, geolocation, images, and/or video. So, he and three other software developers came together to build Alibi, an Android app that passively records all day long. But later, he was recounting the story for his uncle, an attorney, who told him that not only was the officer not allowed to do that, but if Saleh had evidence, he could bring a case against him for it. Saleh had nothing to hide, so he didn’t think much of it. Two police officers came knocking on his windows, and the one on the passenger’s side poked his head in the car, flipped on his flashlight, and started looking around. Last year, Ryan Saleh was pulled over in New York City. So if you're in a protest, police altercation, or even a dangerous personal situation, you can always have evidence. An app that passively records your life so you always have a witnessĪlibi is an Android app that records the last hour of your life.
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