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From their FAQ [1]: If I have an Apple Watch® and iPhone®, can I bring them to my doctor to download NightWare apps? No. NightWare is not an app. When your do

From their FAQ [1]: If I have an Apple Watch® and iPhone®, can I bring them to my doctor to download NightWare apps? No. NightWare is not an app. When your doctor writes a prescription for NightWare, you will receive an all-inclusive kit including everything you need to receive the digital therapy, including a preprogrammed Apple Watch® and preprogrammed iPhone.® I'm going to take a wild guess and say the markup charged to insurance companies for these devices are probably insane [1] https://nightware.com/patient-faq/ https://nightware.com/patient-faq/ edit: added link

gwill 4y ago
if it isn't an app, then is apple giving them OS level permissions or is this a fork of iOS? then would this be getting slower update releases than iOS? i don't see why they couldn't just do this with an app aside from trying to make more money selling devices w it already installed. side note: using the term "virbotactile" gives me snake oil salesman vibes(no pun intended).
- yamtaddle 4y ago
  > if it isn't an app, then is apple giving them OS level permissions or is this a fork of iOS? Gonna guess it's corporate distribution certs (whatever they're called, I haven't had to mess with that in years—the ones that let you sign & distribute apps outside the app store, mostly intended for letting companies distribute internal apps that wouldn't be suitable for general use on the app store) and you're technically leasing the device. Or something along those lines, maybe Apple has a special program that's very similar for medical device use. Not a custom build of the OS, nor special permissions.
- callahad 4y ago
  The footer specifically says this is provided as "a dedicated closed-system specially provisioned Apple Watch and iPhone. In this configuration, iPhone and Apple Watch functionality is limited to running the NightWare app."
flotzam 4y ago
I wonder if it's possible to extract the totally-not-an-app

gwill 4y ago

if it isn't an app, then is apple giving them OS level permissions or is this a fork of iOS? then would this be getting slower update releases than iOS? i don't see why they couldn't just do this with an app aside from trying to make more money selling devices w it already installed. side note: using the term "virbotactile" gives me snake oil salesman vibes(no pun intended).

yamtaddle 4y ago
> if it isn't an app, then is apple giving them OS level permissions or is this a fork of iOS? Gonna guess it's corporate distribution certs (whatever they're called, I haven't had to mess with that in years—the ones that let you sign & distribute apps outside the app store, mostly intended for letting companies distribute internal apps that wouldn't be suitable for general use on the app store) and you're technically leasing the device. Or something along those lines, maybe Apple has a special program that's very similar for medical device use. Not a custom build of the OS, nor special permissions.
callahad 4y ago
The footer specifically says this is provided as "a dedicated closed-system specially provisioned Apple Watch and iPhone. In this configuration, iPhone and Apple Watch functionality is limited to running the NightWare app."

flotzam 4y ago

I wonder if it's possible to extract the totally-not-an-app