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Apple Health+ Reportedly Launching Next Year With Two New Features
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It’ll be things like getting more steps in and tips to sleep better. This won’t be diagnosing or treating medical conditions.
I pretty much agree, just the wording "medical suggestions" - I interpret that as something that a medical provider would tell me, not a "coach"...
If this rumor is true:
Medical suggestions? With what data? All Health data is end-to-end encrypted, so either Apple is going to send your health data off-device, or they're going to charge for something that is running on your device and built into a stock app?
Nutrition planning aka recipes? Like they just added to News+?
Medical suggestions? With what data? All Health data is end-to-end encrypted, so either Apple is going to send your health data off-device, or they're going to charge for something that is running on your device and built into a stock app?
Problem I have is that I don’t really see Apple wanting to take on the burden associated with sensitive personal information that operating a medical device/ health service would bring.
Apple goes out of their way to make sure that they don’t have access to, or control access to it - adding a service as suggested seems the opposite of what they’d do.
What I could see is a service that provides content that could be surfaced in an on-device app. Maybe, for example, meal recipes and nutritional info that could be incorporated into a personalized meal plan selected for the user based on an analysis of their health data - done on device or PCC.
What I would be more interested in, though, as a paid subscription part of Apple One, would be on the entertainment side. Give me a data feed of pre-semantically indexed details of the next month or two across all streaming and linear services so that Siri can let me know when a show that I might be interested in is coming in a couple weeks, and query in the future. Now THAT, I would pay for.
I already get this from my insurance company so I wouldn’t pay Apple for it. I guess for people who don’t get it through other means it might be a worthwhile option.
AI has been used in Apple products for over a decade. It was termed as Machine Learning before AI and the iPhone X FaceID system was a huge AI feature leaning on A11 Bionice to learn face changes over time
EXACTLY what makes this concept utterly disgusting. So the financially better off should receive the extra health benefits of the enhanced version. Awesome. 🙄Apple: Helping save lives…but only if you pay us.
When Apple One + plateau's we'll have to move to Apple One + Pro then Apple One + Pro +!
Hopefully these new additions are not restricted to US only and also will be great if they are made available to Apple One subscribers.
Graet more AI jank, and several AI buttons clogging up my user interface. Copilot is the worst. My god.
Siri fails at much more basic tasks than that for me and I have an iPhone and iPad that were released last year.
100% agree. Would be a instant day one purchase for me. If they want people to invest in Apple One, theres your ticket. Follow the Oura model. Give basic features for free, but everything is unlocked under Apple One.
Anyone old enough to remember paying for MacOS upgrades? How about the automatic 10% restocking fee if you tried to return something to the Apple Store. Ah, the good old days.
It's too bad the Garmin look like a bigger version of a Casio from the 1980s. No offense to Garmin users... it is a personal taste thing at some point too
I'd really like to see Apple make a ring. Something that does state-of-the-art health tracking, and is in their ecosystem. Something that you could use to control the camera on the iPhone, etc. Lotta cool things they could do that would be useful from a UI/ecosystem perspective and a health perspective.
I'd rather have a ring that last for like 7 days or more battery life than an apple watch.
I'd rather have a ring that last for like 7 days or more battery life than an apple watch.
Nutrition planning would likely be about meals, not individual recipes. Here are a set of choices for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks to help you achieve some goal. It could then integrate what you are eating into your health data tracking.
This one is very odd and I will be very curious what it might mean.
Aside from their method for anonymizing transmissions, they would not even require sending your data off device. They would process your data on device, and then request through their anonymization system items for XXX condition. For nutrition, the subscription could cover an up-to-date database of food nutrition data (still the biggest problem with most calorie tracking applications).
