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> detailed health data that users willingly provide. I'm skeptical that an accerometer on your wrist and maybe an optical heartrate monitor can really provide
by ohazi 7y ago
> detailed health data that users willingly provide.
I'm skeptical that an accerometer on your wrist and maybe an optical heartrate monitor can really provide detailed health data.
Honestly, most of the "personal health monitoring" consumer device companies are selling bullshit. They don't have purpose-built devices that are capable of monitoring specific health parameters as you sleep or as you work, they have a pile of "these particular electromechanical / electro-optical sensors happen to be cheap enough and low power enough to put in a wristwatch" and are hoping that they can gain insight by throwing machine learning at the problem. In that sense, perhaps this is a perfect match, since that's what the hype-chasers at Google/X seem to love, but sometimes the best signal you can find just isn't all that useful or interesting.
- jononor 7y agoMaybe not detailed for many medical or health improving things. But Google does not care about that... It just need to be detailed enough for increasing their ability to map the world (see Waze, Niantic), deliver ads, and maybe things like pricing of insurance policy etc.
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- rednerrus 7y agoThey do know how much you move and when you move. If I was selling health-related goods, I would really like to know who's thinking about getting healthy. Who's sticking to their goals, who are faltering. Are you up and moving around in the middle of the night. Are you having trouble sleeping. Are you stressed? All of these things could be extrapolated from the data they have. Seems valuable to me. $2B valuable, I don't know.