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Scuttled 'Apple Doctor' would have connected consumers with healthcare
There are two main approaches to "healthcare":The one we are most familiar with is actually "DiseaseManagement" -- where you go to the doctor with a complaint or your doctor finds a problem and, in most cases, he prescribes a pill. The pill typically does nothing to resolve the problem. But it does suppress the symptoms of the problem (so in the medical mind, they fixed the problem). (Blood pressure pills are a prime example)The other approach is actual healthcare where health is promoted and maintained. Dean Ornish may be the best proponent of that approach as he advocates a healthy lifestyle that includes a healthy diet, daily exercise, stress reduction along with human love and connection. He has shown that that lifestyle can not only prevent but even reverse heart disease, many cancers, Type 2 diabetes and is currently running a study that may show that it can prevent and reverse Alzheimers. His program is no longer alternative medicine or anything far out as Medicare and many insurance programs now pay for it because it has been proven to work.It is estimated that 80% of the $17Trillion Americans spend on health care each year is spent on chronic diseases and that this lifestyle approach can prevent 80% of those chronic diseases. Which is maybe why those receiving that $17Trillion have never been thrilled by the lifestyle approach.So, while the American medical system gives lip service to lifestyle medicine it typically then ignores it in favor of traditional medical pills and procedures (which is where the money is). Apple has come closer than most to promoting those healthy lifestyles but still seems to be firmly rooted in the traditional medical establishment. That may be good because, in that business, traditional medicine calls the shots and any who challenge it tend to run into a buzz saw.
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Apple plans new 'Apple Watch SE,' faster models, extreme sports version
Body temp could possibly be helpful beyond just being replacement for your household thermometer -- but also for endurance sports.A few years ago I worked on the medical team for the Pittsburgh Marathon. One year was warmer than most and we had about a dozen runners enter the medical tent with body temps over 110 degrees. They were cooled as quickly as possible (we had an ice bath available) and transported to a tier one hospital.My personal experience with that was transporting a young mother and her infant to the hospital where her husband had been sent (she wasn't able to go in the ambulance because it was not equipped with a car seat to transport her infant). Throughout that trip she didn't know if she would find her husband alive when we got there. Fortunately, as it turned out, he was alive and recovering well.But that was at a marathon with full medical facilities and staff (it was bigger and better staffed than the ER in most community hospitals). Most races do not have that level of care and the racers are much more on their own.In my own experience: I had trained hard for a 10K on a shady trail and I knew that I could complete the race without slowing or stopping to hydrate. It was a great plan -- except I neglected to take into account that the actual race was in open sun. As a result I dehydrated and the over heated -- which I knew from the symptoms. Being able to check my temperature during the race would have alerted me and not only saved me the discomfort but I likely would have set a personal best time.I can see how this would be helpful to endurance athletes.
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iPadOS 15 confirms Apple's M1-equipped iPad Pro is a V8 engine powering a Ford Pinto
AppleZulu said:
Because Apple said so. Leadership at Apple that is not dead.GeorgeBMac said:AppleZulu said:
No means no, you know.GeorgeBMac said:AppleZulu said:
Or, combining the two would create a single device that’s not as good as either machine separately.Ofer said:
The pessimist in me would offer another reason for why Apple won’t offer full MacOS capabilities on an iPad: $$. As long as they offer them as two different platforms with different capabilities they can continue to get people out there to purchase both. If they offered an iPad as a dockable system with full macOS capabilities it would cannibalise MacBook sales. Why purchase both if you can get an all-in-one experience.rcfa said:I own an iPad since the first model that Apple brought to market. I justified the purchasing prices for my by now three iPads (original, Air, Pro), by comparing it with the cost, weight, bulk and hassle of producing, maintaining and carrying paper photo albums vs. carrying an iPad.
Everything else, like watching Netflix in bed, jotting down a note, or quickly checking an e-mail, are fringe benefits. Despite the latest iPad of mine being a 12” A12X based iPad Pro with 1TB of storage, it NEVER was more for me than a photo album and media consumption device, and certainly NOTHING that deserved the name Pro, not even for something as trivial as e-mail does it deserve that name, for what sort of “Pro” solution is an e-mail system that doesn’t allow the user to inspect a messages RAW content to see if something is real or an elaborate phishing e-mail? At best, it might qualify as a semi-pro accessory to a Mac, if one uses it as a Wacom Tablet replacement with Sidecar or some third party software like AirDisplay.
When the MagicKeyboard hit the market, it endeavored into an expensive experiment: would a MagicKeyboard change how I worked with the iPad Pro? Would a cigarette box sized Raspberry Pi 8GB RAM Linux system attached, networked and powered over the USB-C connection and operated over RDP, make up for some of the shortcomings of iPad OS (e.g. by running a real e-mail client like Thunderbird on the Raspberry, by having Mathematica on the Raspberry, by having development and network testing tools on the linux system, etc.)?
The answer was a resounding YES in both cases, but more importantly, it showed me that the iPad Pro with MagicKeyboard was the HARDWARE I always wished a MacBook Air would be: Much better screen, touch screen, pen input, etc. At the same time, the more I worked with the MagicKeyboard, the more painful the shortcomings of iPadOS became.
Yes, I get the difference between a mouse/trackpad&keyboard driven UI and a touch UI. I get that macOS is the former and iPadOS is the latter…
…BUT, branding aside, macOS and iPadOS are fundamentally the same OS (Darwin), with different UI layers. With the new iPad Pros (A12X and up with 6GB RAM or more) there is no hardware issue with running macOS. And just as macOS apps can have a windowed mode and a full screen mode, there’s nothing that stops the same app from in addition having a touch UI mode. So one could have an adaptive OS, which adjusts the UI based on whether docked with pointing device and keyboard, or used standalone in touch UI mode.
With the M1 version, and its up to 2TB of SSD and 16GB RAM, there could be even another solution: virtualization. Run macOS virtualized in an iPadOS app, and switch to it when docked, and suspend it when undocked.
Even working on a slow-poke system like a Raspberry Pi “remotely” over USB-C and RDP makes the iPad Pro feel like a seamless laptop, that lets me miss nothing (except for macOS rather than Linux), so how much better would a virtualized macOS be, that would run at nearly native speed, and would gain tablet input, and instant switching between iPadOS and macOS? How cool would it be to run Xcode on the virtualized macOS system, and then test the app directly on the iPad?
It would be awesome, beyond words. And what would Apple have to do to make this possible? Nothing. Less than nothing. All they would need to do is to stop actively sabotaging virtualization apps on iPadOS, and a third party solution would spring up in short order.
Now, why is Apple getting in its own way?
The answer is easy: they don’t have “software and hardware divisions”, which if they did, they wouldn’t care which of their operating systems you ran on which of their hardware devices, but they have “Mac, iDevice, aTV, etc. divisions”, and so the Mac division has no interest in driving iDevice sales by spending man hours making their software available on the competing division’s hardware, while digging their own hardware’s grave. The video of how the iPad division went to steal the M1 chip from the Mac division, was in a strange way revealing of why we have the problems as Pro users with the iPad Pro and its media consumption platform operating system.You obviously don't have much confidence in Apple.Microsoft did it pretty well. I think Apple can do even better.Because you said so?You should be sure to call Tim and let him know what your decision was.Really?is that why they added an external keyboard and trackpad to the iPad -- making it a 2 in 1?Maybe you should call TIm and let him those his people did that.He'll probably want them to upgrade the software to match the hardware they're selling because right now, it's a 2 in 1 but its not very good at it.It's certainly not up to Apple standards.
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Apple adds Windows Precision Touchpad to Boot Camp, eight years late
Xed said:
M1 Macs aren't just functional, but are destroying x86_64-based PCs everywhere.larryjw said:
Microsoft is waiting for Apple to build a functional ARM PC so they have a platform to run Windows on.exsangus said:
Agree 100%. It may take a few years, but I would be shocked if we never saw Windows on ARM.Xed said:
While Apple could choose not to offer Bootcamp for M1 Macs, I don't see that as something they'd shy away from as the cost of development is likely minuscule compared to the overall benefit. The core issue is Microsoft not offering a license for Windows ARM. MS will offer this when PC makers are wanting to push more ARM-based PCs to the market to better compete with Apple on performance per watt. There's too much at stake for MS not to make this happen for their vendors.luisfrocha said:Any chance this could be a signal that they’re continuing work on BootCamp and that it MIGHT be enabled on M1 Macs somehow?
I don’t know; I’m just reaching on this one. Perhaps they (Apple) found a way to run a HAL or something on top of M1/M2 hardware where (Intel) Windows can run on top of? *shrug* Just wishful thinking here lol
Windows on ARM already exists and has for many years. MS Surface devices hat mostly run ARM have a decent mindshare despite their low-volume sales.LOL... No, the world doesn't care how fast the M1 is. They just want to know if they can do what they have to do -- and 90% can do that quite well even with a lowly I3.Functionality rules and functionality derives from software, not hardware.And, yes ARM based Windows does exist -- but in a limited, not fully developed form. That will change.Apple didn't change computing with the M1. But what they did do was open a door for Macs to enter the walled garden.
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Apple previews iPadOS 15 with home screen widget support, system-wide notes
thedba said:
If you want to run MacOS, then get a Mac.k2kw said:Apple “another work around because we won’t allow you to run MacOs on the iPad.”
If you want to run iPadOS, then get an iPad.
I think your expectations were way too high for iPadOS at WWDC21, considering that it is meant to run the same OS that goes into the iPad/iPad mini/iPad Air.
If you want to replace your aging Mac, then get another Mac.
If on the other hand you want or can complement your existing workflow with an iPad then the iPad Pro is a great tool. I already know how I can complement (not replace) my workflow with it.
On top of that, the iPad is my most used device when I'm not working.Were expectations too high?Or was what was delivered to low?Increasingly people will get tired of saying: "Oh, boy, I can't do that because I only have an iPad." (Or I only have a Mac).The only way my 8th grade grandson could do his school work using Apple products was to have BOTH a MacBook and an iPad. Neither, by itself, could do all that his teachers required. On the other hand, the cheap, crappy Dell 2 in 1 the school handed out could do it all and, if it had a better processor and better screen could do it very competently.Nobody in his family will be upgrading their MacBook or iPad until Apple lifts what are becoming increasingly artificial constraints on their functionality.Perhaps the analogy might be a Ferrari without a reverse gear: It can go out-run and out-perform almost anything on the street. But you can't park it.For my grandson:
-- If he only had a Mac he could do his English and Social Studies Homework (most of it) -- but not his math or science homework.-- If he only had an iPad, he could do his math and science homework but not his English and Social Studies Homework (not without a great deal of difficulty)To put it simply: Have you ever tried to solve a quadratic equation on a Mac? Yeh, you can do it -- but it would take many times longer than on a tablet with pencil. And drawing a political cartoon for Social Studies? Forget it.