Too funny @bbarrera, we're close on the years, I'm at 46, currently ;-] Mine's a mix though, I telemark sometimes (raced tele for awhile too, that was truly an adventure of different sorts, thought I was "pretty good" on my tele's until I got in the gates...). I snowboard sometimes too, but not as much after having to get a small bone fused, I definitely crash more on the snowboard, and those "pendulum falls" on the board are really rough. I raced for years, before helmets were ever required, even for college divisional racing, with no helmet (there basically weren't any, except for downhill, and even those were sporadic, as I'm sure you know). The snowboard got me started on a helmet, the absolute pounding you take, when catching edges, while learning (I'm sort of an intermediate-advanced boarder, I can get down almost anything, but some isn't pretty).
Hands down agree on the obstacles being MANY factors more dangerous, and I'd add other snow-sporters to the list too. My two previous big ones to this one involved one out-of-control guy plowing into me, while I was chatting w/my wife and daughter. He was all of 6'5", and at least 250lb, and at 5'8", 155-60, he blew me off my feet, and boy was I hurting. Plus, he got up and skied off, before anyone could get his info, or anything, the ski patrol checked me, but I was in one piece. Before that, a few years, I crossed a steep fall-line, at-speed, along with a boarder coming the other way on the ridge, and we sort of half bounced off each other, and then really tumbled (broke my goggles, and was pretty scratched from that one).
I need to get out of the business of the 2-3 year cycle though, it's not going to scale, bones and stuff just aren't going to heal fast enough, or possibly at all.
Yeah, I'm a phablet person, so I'm good with my goofy radio, camera, and watch, old-school (sort of), or mixed. I could probably move the phone to a different pocket to be a bit safer, but it's too big, it would just annoy me.
I'm fine with others skiing with their phones, my wife does, and most of my friends. The risk is probably small, even in my "breast plate" configuration, but it spooked me, I looked at those pieces of heavy-duty plastic (gorilla glass), with the sharp edges, and that was enough for my config. It's all assumed-risk, any way you slice it.
Yeah, I hear you, they seem to be struggling to just cover the current sports, but I think they could leverage the developer community. They've gotten popular enough, that if they extended the API to allow things like "advanced data display" and such, a ported skiing app (from another platform) might be do-able. Of course it might not even be part of their target market...
