Oh, one more thing occurred to me that doesn't require me to put words together: I will be a very early adopter of the Apple Watch. Can't wait. I've heard almost nothing about it, and even if I had something to say about it myself, I couldn't say it today. But I'm definitely getting one. Do you have an opinion?
Mike
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Will: "It took me only a few months with an iPhone, some six years ago, to convince me that I no longer needed to wear a watch. Now Apple's trying to convince me that I do?"
sporobolus: While I'm not particularly interested in owning an Apple Watch, I found a pretty good way to think about it (from the perspective of a technically astute person describing it to an average consumer) at this blog post by Neil Cybart (via Daring Fireball)."
Stephen F Faust: "I'm a fan of Apple's products, but I just can't figure out why I would want an Apple watch or what I would do with it. However, I said the same thing about the iPad until I bought one in 2013, now I couldn't live without it. So I'll probably be jumping on the bandwagon around version 4 in 2018 or so."
Earl Dunbar (partial comment): "...For many people and many needs, I think the information will be highly useful and relevant and, perhaps even critical and life-saving.
"I think the best way to think about the Apple watch itself is as a platform, not just a device. Think about this: Your doctor knows about a heart attack nearly before you do. Or—GM OnStar becomes obsolete. Your range or microwave knows exactly when to start cooking based on your location, route and traffic conditions as you make your way home. OK, that last one might not work completely reliably. For now. Yes, as a 1.0 device, early adoption will not be a good strategy for some, if not most. But the possibilities of building on and with the iWatch platform are pretty staggering."
Speed: "Building on Earl Dunbar's comments above...
The Microsoft Health platform includes a cloud service for consumers and the industry to store and combine health and fitness data to create powerful insights. Microsoft Health will be available for consumers from the new Microsoft Health app which launches today on Android, iOS and Windows Phone. Also launching today is the Microsoft Band, a smart band designed for Microsoft Health, for people who want to live healthier and be more productive.
"And from today's Wall Street Journal...
I thought I’d seen it all in my decades long practice as a cardiologist, but recently, for the first time, I had an ECG emailed to me by a patient, with the subject line, “I’m in atrial fib, now what do I do?” I immediately knew that the world had changed. The patient’s phone hadn’t just recorded the data; it had interpreted it.
"Academic and industry researchers have been working for decades on sensors and technologies to monitor physiological variables. Now that people are carrying tiny computers disguised as telephones, tiny sensors disguised as watches are advancing medicine into an era first glimpsed in Star Trek."
