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Apple Expected to Introduce Health Tracking App and Smart Home Toolkit at WWDC
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Hmmm...if the health book could replace my upcoming colonoscopy by monitoring one of those new little colonoscopy cameras that you can swallow and then wifi-ing the results to my doctor, I'm all in. Seriously. I think Olympus makes the cameras, but why couldn't "Healthbook" pull in the results via wifi
If you're expecting them to just be back to building PCs and laptops, give it up because that's never going to happen again.
If it did, that would be a sign that something's gone horribly wrong. When they were PCs only they were at best, what...a $10 billion a year company at their best?
Now they're a $180 billion a year company.
How exciting. Now where is the new MacBook Pro? Or Mac Mini? Or iMac?
Heard little to nothing about hardware-related debuts at this year's WWDC...
Sounds like this is gonna be an all-software related keynote...
It gets more boring-sounding by the day.
Healthbook????
Heard little to nothing about hardware-related debuts at this year's WWDC...
Sounds like this is gonna be an all-software related keynote...
It gets more boring-sounding by the day.
Healthbook????
Well me for a start. I use passbook at the airport all the time because I have to travel for work. I also use it for going to soccer games because the stadium can scan my phone.
I use Nike running, run keeper and pacemaker to track various activities and would welcome something which does it better (although they're all great).
So yes, while it might not be your thing I can tell you quite a few people would get some use out of it.
I'm not expecting them to do just that. I'm expecting them to provide a full range of computers before going in all directions.
We committed to their system many years ago, now they have to support us.
The only health related app I have is iTriage, which is really pretty good for medical diagnostic and facilities location services.
I have to wonder if this app will embed itself into the health book
I have to wonder if this app will embed itself into the health book
I think apple will be providing plenty of hooks/APIs so that devs will be able to (relatively) simply meet the protocols for incorporation into Healthbook.
This is much better than Nest. Apple does not need to make any of these smart devices, they only need to provide the "hooks" for their use to developers, who can make all of the necessary connections between products and Apple devices. This will also follow the BYOD Trent into enterprise environments. This is really very exciting!
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OS X is still a huge feature at WWDC, and they had the "Back to the Mac" event not that long ago, so there is still a lot of "Computer" in "Apple."
Not only that but they have some really spectacular patents and I suspect many of them will be put to use (finally) in the next year or two.
For the "fanless" portable they've got a really cool ionic wind generator. Using an iMac as the wireless charging hub for your home. Some really cool ideas that have had their patents updated over the last few months.
IMO, Apple knows the last two/three years have not been the best in terms of breakthroughs and they know people expected better from them or they wouldn't be on the top 5 of the most valuable companies in the world. Furthermore, they have lost the first place on that list recently and I don't think they are ok with that. They need to change the world once again as they they with the original iPhone.
Apple is very deliberate in their new product launches. It happens like clockwork almost every 3 years. They release, then rapidly refine, while the rest of the industry catches up to the first iteration. Then overtime the competitors catch up as a market segment matures, while apple has already been working on their next new product market for a few years.
That has been the formula for the last decade, like clockwork.
Indeed, the only real place for innovation in mobile tablets/cellphones left is in battery life and haptic feedback.
For haptic feedback I'm talking about technology that actually lets you feel the image on the screen, like sandpaper. Senseg has been working with Apple for a few years, I don't think it's happening this year but probably in the next two. Interestingly, Disney Research has been working on a very similar technology for a few years now, and we all know who has very close ties to Disney
UNLESS of course, physical touch plays a part in why Eddy Cue is saying this years pipeline is the best he's seen in 25 years. But again, I sincerely think it's going to be a few more years.
Amazing haptic feedback technology: http://senseg.com
Disney's version: http://techland.time.com/2013/10/09...g-you-feel-bumps-and-ridges-on-a-touchscreen/
Only a couple weeks after I installed a full Iris Home Automation system, Apple is creating or announcing theirs?.
Only a couple weeks after I installed a full Iris Home Automation system, Apple is creating or announcing theirs?.
It's going to be an underwhelming made for iPhone like certification, but I imagine once enough products are built to standard a year or two from now, then apple will be releasing some type of hub (maybe built into their Airports or Apple TV).
I share your excitement! Those who said that Apple can't innovate anymore (Hello, Steve Wozniak!) are about to have their pants blown off!!
The next two years really are going to be revolutionary.
The thing is, most people who aren't nerds following these things don't understand the unfathomable effort that goes into these things. Take smartphones, the landscape has changed night and day since 2007, the entire market has shifted in an amazingly short period of time. But no one seems to really appreciate how dramatic a shift this has become. Consumers think these new paradigms just fall from the sky, which is really disheartening.
Don't get your hopes up!
Usually if there is a repost and it seems like it is definite then that means you will never see it in your lifetime! Let's hope that this is not true!
The double rumor definite post jinx!
Absolutely, well said.
People's expectations are way out of proportion theses days. It's like they suddenly forgot that the things that are currently on the market are easy things to develop just because tech companies have lots of money and people.
Having said that there are a lot of users now days who have known nothing else but the technology world we live in so they have nothing else to compare with.