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I hate Apple's approach of doing 70% of the work all the time. If they truly cared about health, they'd make it incredibly easy for any company to add health da
by kine 6y ago
I hate Apple's approach of doing 70% of the work all the time. If they truly cared about health, they'd make it incredibly easy for any company to add health data in to their ecosystem and not just try to sell more Apple Watches. As a Whoop user, it's so much more beneficial than their basic Apple Watch stats (which btw are fine for most people, I just want more/better HRV data)
- nbashaw 6y agoWhy doesn't Whoop integrate with Apple Health?
- kine 6y agoYou'd have to ask Apple. Probably because they just want to sell more watches
- nbashaw 6y agoWell Apple Health is an open API that anyone can integrate with. So I'd assume Whoop either A) doesn't want to be modularized, or B) has a data format that doesn't fit with Apple's specification for some good reason.
- kine 6y agoOh interesting. I stand corrected then! I'd guess 2 things: 1) From the less-than-stellar quality of Whoop's app, their data is probably differently formatted and they don't want to bother 2) They want you to stay in their app and use their algos to manage your health data as opposed to Apple's, which they can't control.
- saagarjha 6y agoYou can actually integrate with Health while still also showing it in your app. Health is like a database of sorts which you can choose to add your data to or access from yoUr app. (Similar to HomeKit, actually.)
- kine 6y agoRight, what I'm saying is that Whoop should, but doesn't. I don't really want to export my data, transform it for Apple's Health APIs and then re-import it. I want Whoop to do that for me. I'd use their App and Apple Health.
- MDWolinski 6y agoYou should reach out to Whoop and request they sync their data with Apple Health. This isn't an Apple issue, this is a Whoop issue. The more users who request it, hopefully, the more they'll see the need. Also, to counter one of your arguments above, Apple Health doesn't do a lot of analysis on third party data short of showing it in charts, so there is still value to using Whoops app for that aspect of it. As an example, my scale is Whithings, my bed had a Beautyrest Sleeptracker both of these services consume and contribute to Apple Health.
- roblitterst 6y agoThis is definitely a common complaint with WHOOP! Looking into the reviews for the WHOOP 3.0 the biggest piece of negative feedback I could find is the lack of integration with Apple Health. Seems like this is a bridge they'll have to cross eventually.
- harpratap 6y agoOr probably people have become vary of companies like Apple and Amazon who are very focused on vertical integration at the cost of killing off the business of their partners. Spotify had to spend decade to reach critical mass of users for it to reach profitability. Apple Music got their much sooner because Apple was able to push it as the default music app.
- dunefox 6y ago> If they truly cared about health It's a company, it doesn't and cannot care about anything other than profit.
- crispyporkbites 6y agoA company is just a group of people working together. It can care about whatever those people choose to care about.
- dunefox 6y agoThat has nothing to do with the position of the company, though. The employees can care about what they want.
- akg_67 6y agoCompanies used to serve multiple stakeholders that included, employees who worked for them, communities they were present in, customers they served, etc. in addition to stock holders. Slowly, slowly, the definition of stakeholders has been shrunk and reduced to stock holders and responsibilities reduced to maximizing profit. Of course these stakeholders and responsibilities are being further reduced slowly slowly to where companies only exist to benefit large shareholders and corporate executives. I am guessing you might be young and may not be aware of history of corporations.
- krotton 6y agoIt does. If the employees of the company have a coherent stance on something, that's exactly what the company's stance is.
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- WanderPanda 6y agoThey need to care about their customers to make profit?!
- graeme 6y agoIt is easy to add data to Apple health though. You can even do it programatically yourself with the Shortcuts app. There are thousands of apps that integrate with Apple Health. If Whoop doesn’t, that is surely a choice Whoop made.