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  • Don't use a smartwatch or smart ring for blood glucose monitoring just yet

    To be fair, up to this point all the health related sensors are relevant to everyone, pulse, heart, O2 level etc.

    An accurate, non-invasive glucose monitor would be an absolute godsend for those that need to keep a close eye on their sugar levels, but it isn't something that everyone needs. It would likely had a big impact on sales, with people buying it for that functionality alone, however for the rest of the population, it wouldn't be needed but might be "nice" to be able to see.. So I guess there is a reasonable argument to be made that if it's sensors require sacrificing something else, or require the watch to be bigger, or shorten battery life, that there would be two lines of apple watches, ones with and ones without the glucose monitoring.
    watto_cobra
  • Apple is working on at least two folding iPhone prototypes

    AJ MAC25 said:
     :/ I have followed this issue for a few years and have seen the non-Apple foldables.
    I have yet to figure out WHY anyone wants or needs a foldable phone.  Maybe a foldable iPad (?), but I do not see the need for a foldable phone.
    I came from the flip-phone generation and do not wish to go back.

    Well making the brave assumption that having it foldable does not impact any other characteristic, I assume that many people might find an iphone15 that is 1/2 the current height when not in use as an advantage. Personally, it wouldn't be a major selling point for me, especially given that there would be a BIG cost premium, but a more or less square form factor would be more secure in some trouser pockets I have, and perhaps ladies would find it sits better in their rear trouser pocket/purse.

    Alternatively an iphone15 with potentially twice the size screen (i.e. 15 of current size which then folds out to double size), would make viewing video a much better experience. But where does the extra battery life come from to drive a double size screen ?
    watto_cobra
  • Apple TV app adds 3D movies ahead of Vision Pro release

    I wonder is it possible to sideload appleTV onto say the quest3 and watch these 3d movies using that ?
    williamlondonbyronlwatto_cobra
  • Rumor: AirTag 2 will debut with Apple Vision Pro integration in early 2025

    Don't airtags also have an apple proprietary UWB tx-er  in addition to bluetooth ?
    byronlwatto_cobra
  • 'Apple Glasses' reportedly launching in 2026 or 2027 at the earliest

    This is starting to feel like the whole Apple Car thing. Scores and scores of articles of it definitely coming, who is working on it, where they are working on it, when it might launch, what it might have and then it never really was going to happen at all.

    Or go back several years earlier, and it was the same thing with the Apple TV.

    One wonders sometimes where these stories come from, or are they just total fabrications that the entire industry is in on to fill column inches and provide clickbait.

    Be honest, is it really now journalistic worth posting ANYTHING on this subject, when the most recent "leak" is saying its not happening for 3-4 years, and actually no one knows for sure if there is actually a project at all ?

    I hear Apple are going to fabricate their own ram chips, won't be in devices until 2028...proceed with conjecture for 3-4 years about size, R&D partner, key personnel, cost savings, novel IP that might be deployed based on some tenuous patents being applied/granted, power requirements, location of plant, first product to use them etc...and then ummm, the project has been dropped.
    watto_cobra