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mark fearing said:

I call B.S. If they killed it it's because Android is a leak factory and maintaining the watch on that platform would be a nightmare.  Trying to provide equal quality - a nightmare. And why do it? For a tiny number of watch sales? So nightmare crossed with Not Worth It...And it would provide little benefit to the wearer divorced from the Apple system. 

I agree with you. This is from Bloomberg, which has a policy of publishing articles that affect the stock price of a given company. It sounds like preparation for a series of negative hit pieces on big, bad, we're-not-going-to-share-with-anybody, we-want-to-protect-our-profits-at-the-cost-of-helping-people Apple to drive the stock price down, then in January when AVP is released, hype it to the hilt and ride the wave up.

Frankly, if the project was real the only thing that would have killed it is Apple's privacy requirements for such sensitive data.

Remember, Apple allows the iPhone to control more than one Watch - so if you buy your kids a cheap Android phone you as the parent can still manage their watch using your own device. That doesn't jibe with the claim being put forth here.

spheric said:

Panner_Nudding said:

Very unlikely if it is it certainly won’t be cleared by any health organizations. It will be a gimmick with a warning to see a doctor for an accurate measurement. 

The blood oxygen and pulse meters and EKG aren't cleared for "medical" use, but they're good enough to be truly useful, as hundreds of news articles have proven over the years. 

If I'd had a watch that diagnosed my sleep apnoea twenty years earlier, the quality of my life would have been radically different. Millions of people are going to have a device that can do this, en passant, and it will be literally life-changing to many, many people. 

Yes. It's amazing how much a basic diagnosis can be useful, even though the measurement data is not particularly accurate. If the error is always the same amount (or the same percentage) then the trend will still be visible and that can lead to meaningful benefits in a lot of cases. Get the rough outline right, then polish.

darkvader said:

They need to do a LOT more than fine Apple.  A fine will be treated as the cost of doing business.

Ban iPhone imports unless Apple allows users to install software from any source of their choosing.  It's time for governments to do their job and shut down Apple's monopoly.

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I for one will not rest until I can install the software from my car's ECU onto my iPhone.

Once again: it is possible to install your own software on your own phone without paying Apple any money. You sign up for the free tier of Apple's Developer program, use the free Xcode IDE to write your app, digitally sign it and install it on your phone. There are restrictions: you have to reinstall the app every seven days and you cannot submit it to the app store to share it with other people. But there is nothing to stop you from sharing the source code and other app resources and allowing others to compile and sign the app themselves.

Sigh. All these marketing people want to link product names whenever a company integrates a separate technology into a new or existing product. "We have to tell people; if we don't tell them every time we mention the product, they won't know! And this way we can count mentions of the integrated stuff and claim it has a large impact. And AI is super hot right now so we have to reinforce our brand."

All it ends up being is a mouthful of ridiculous phrases that diffuses the identity of the product they want you to buy. I don't buy a "Ford Ranger with Diesel" or a "Ford Ranger with Petrol" - I buy a "Ford Ranger" and know that it comes in different versions. I don't want an "Assistant with Bard", I want an assistant so I check out all the capabilities - oh, the latest version comes with new AI features? OK, cool.

Some of these people need to learn that you don't tell, you show. Wait for the human brain's association process to kick in - we learn things one at a time and associate the new thing with what we already know. Naming things is hard, but keep it simple and you'll get better results.

"Slightly cheaper than an iPhone and almost as good! ... hey, it worked for Windows PCs in the 90s..."