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beowulfschmidt said:

22july2013 said:

My doctor told me last year that there is a medical study that says too much measuring of blood pressure can increase your blood pressure (but I couldn't confirm this with a web search.) So if a future Apple Watch takes too many measurements (and if you look at the measurements) it could actually make your health worse.

I experience what my doctor calls "white coat syndrome", where the first time someone takes my BP, it's elevated.  He, or his assistant, tend to take it three or four times during a visit now when the first sample is elevated.

The great thing about constant body function measurements is as it become passive, we can finally see the normal variations in these measurements. We really don't have that data now. We know our body functions fluctuate in circadian rhythms, but these are measurements in laboratory or hospital conditions with small samples. To see this under real conditions across millions of people will give researchers vast data to discover if not merely document how we work. 

I’ve never used my iPads as a substitute for a laptop or desktop, so the very idea of buying a keyboard for my iPads was never a consideration. 

Since the plaintiffs claim Apple reviewed the patent, Apple must have made the decision to build the watch anyway without negotiating a licensing agreement with the plaintiffs. 

Apple either thought their devices would not infringe or calculated the cost assuming they would be sued. 

Either way, Apple legal is not surprised, I would think.

Though I would argue their general description of their patented idea was preceded by the Dick Tracy comics. 

CiaranF said:

Ha! Why am I not surprised? LOL. 

Sure you need to buy other accessories for their air tags. They couldn’t be arsed putting a hole in the tag so you could attach to a key ring. A mixture of greed and over aesthetics. 

Half my keys don’t fit on a key ring because the hole is too narrow. So I need a bunch of small rings to attach to larger rings.

Then of course, keys don’t have much of a problem with water, battery replacement, antenna, stray voltage, or electrical induction, all of which needs to be considered when designing an electronic device. 

mjtomlin said:

pulseimages said:

Spotify would be better if their app wasn’t so clunky compared to Apple Music. 

Well that's only because Apple is yet again being anticompetitive, because they have a monopoly over the iOS user interface and can take advantage of their UI designers.

They don't have any monopoly over their interface. Anyone can use it and in fact Apple has reams of documents showing how to use it.