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I wouldn't be so sure, the device is being announced in two weeks but it is unlikely that we will be able to buy it straight away. We might find that the relea

I wouldn't be so sure, the device is being announced in two weeks but it is unlikely that we will be able to buy it straight away. We might find that the release date for purchase is some time away. Edit: Actually the article refers to blood glucose monitoring, which points so it being the 2022 model. However, the article does say there is a complete resign, which is also rumoured for this year model. Who know.

Hamuko 5y ago
If the Apple TV 4K is any indication, there's at least a month lag between announcement and shipments.
- jon-wood 5y ago
  Even with a month’s lag products would already be in mass production, it regularly takes over a month just to ship goods from China to the US & Europe. Lead time on a new production line can easily run from six months to over a year depending on complexity. If they’re still having problems with the production lines they’re not going to be shipping to customers in a little over a month, short of using air freight to get goods across, and that would make a substantial dent in profit margins at scale.
  - madmoose 5y ago
    Apple does fly a lot of their products out of China so it doesn't take a month.
    - nicce 5y ago
      Yup. Last year I bought Apple Watch and it left China in next day.
  - djrogers 5y ago
    > short of using air freight to get goods across Most iPhones and Apple Watches I’ve ever purchased on launch day ship via air from China to a FedEx hub somewhere in CONUS, then on to me. Takes about 3 days…
iamacyborg 5y ago
Blood glucose monitoring is defined going to be interesting to watch. I wonder if they're planning on doing it in a similar way to supersapiens.
- m0zg 5y ago
  There's no way Apple would design any device which would, I quote, "insert a thin, sterile filament into the skin" to draw interstitial fluid. The Abbott sensor is designed to be worn for weeks on end.
  - iamacyborg 5y ago
    How else are they going to monitor blood glucose? Finger prick tests?
    - m0zg 5y ago
      They could miniaturize a specialized spectrometer of some sort I suppose. I don't know. If I knew, I'd be doing it now - that's quite literally tens of billions of dollars that people would throw at you faster than you'd be able to catch it. E.g. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/104/1/012036 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/104/1/0...
      - iamacyborg 5y ago
        Yeah, that’d be a very rewarding problem to solve.
      - tudorw 5y ago
        'January 2017 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the company unveiled the Changhong H2 with NIR spectrometer', not sure if this was ever released, but suggests miniature spectrometry is a thing...
    - rwc 5y ago
      The rumor (based on acquisitions Apple has made) is that it will be based on sweat, using sensors built into new watch bands.

Hamuko 5y ago

If the Apple TV 4K is any indication, there's at least a month lag between announcement and shipments.

jon-wood 5y ago
Even with a month’s lag products would already be in mass production, it regularly takes over a month just to ship goods from China to the US & Europe. Lead time on a new production line can easily run from six months to over a year depending on complexity. If they’re still having problems with the production lines they’re not going to be shipping to customers in a little over a month, short of using air freight to get goods across, and that would make a substantial dent in profit margins at scale.
- madmoose 5y ago
  Apple does fly a lot of their products out of China so it doesn't take a month.
  - nicce 5y ago
    Yup. Last year I bought Apple Watch and it left China in next day.
- djrogers 5y ago
  > short of using air freight to get goods across Most iPhones and Apple Watches I’ve ever purchased on launch day ship via air from China to a FedEx hub somewhere in CONUS, then on to me. Takes about 3 days…

iamacyborg 5y ago

Blood glucose monitoring is defined going to be interesting to watch. I wonder if they're planning on doing it in a similar way to supersapiens.

m0zg 5y ago
There's no way Apple would design any device which would, I quote, "insert a thin, sterile filament into the skin" to draw interstitial fluid. The Abbott sensor is designed to be worn for weeks on end.
- iamacyborg 5y ago
  How else are they going to monitor blood glucose? Finger prick tests?
  - m0zg 5y ago
    They could miniaturize a specialized spectrometer of some sort I suppose. I don't know. If I knew, I'd be doing it now - that's quite literally tens of billions of dollars that people would throw at you faster than you'd be able to catch it. E.g. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/104/1/012036 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/104/1/0...
    - iamacyborg 5y ago
      Yeah, that’d be a very rewarding problem to solve.
    - tudorw 5y ago
      'January 2017 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the company unveiled the Changhong H2 with NIR spectrometer', not sure if this was ever released, but suggests miniature spectrometry is a thing...
  - rwc 5y ago
    The rumor (based on acquisitions Apple has made) is that it will be based on sweat, using sensors built into new watch bands.