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I'm most interested in the medical stuff Apple is reportedly pursuing with the iWatch. The M7 in the iPhone is the one thing holding me back from a Nexus 5. I u
by k-mcgrady 13y ago
I'm most interested in the medical stuff Apple is reportedly pursuing with the iWatch. The M7 in the iPhone is the one thing holding me back from a Nexus 5. I use the Runkeeper app and it can track my activities automatically now and is quite accurate (e.g. I set it to record any walk/run longer than 15 mins). I also use the Moves app to track my steps throughout the day. It's quite accurate and with the M7 I haven't noticed any battery drain. If Apple can add sensors to measure several more data points that I can improve upon over time (as I have been trying to do with steps taken daily) it could impact my health quite significantly.
- XorNot 13y agoThat's consumer health, not medical. Medical is a very different type of thing. You can slap 'not for medical applications' on lots of things to deflect liability, but that's just the same market as Fitbit and whatever. No one with an insulin pump cares about whether Apple made it, and the requirements of important medical devices scale in a way which blows branding and even UI out of consideration.
- seehafer 13y agoType 1 Diabetics have been asking for an insulin pump "as simple as the iPhone" for years. I would know, I've worked on insulin pump designs. Branding certainly is not important, but UI is incredibly important in a number of medical devices, insulin pumps among them. Back in the early 00's a startup company won significant share in a few short years against the behemoth near-monopolist in the market by differentiating only on UI.
- seehafer 13y agoI wouldn't be surprised if Apple got into something actually medical (and not just consumer health) given the team they're assembling, a couple of whom are ex-colleagues of mine who have 15+ years in medical device design.