Is the oximeter going to be accurate for dark-skinned people? Or will it have the same problems that other blood oximeters have?
PSA: Google owns Fitbit.
Caveat Emptor.
Thanks for that. I was unawares of the little tidbit.
And we'll get EDA sensor in 2021, skin temperature sensor in 2022 (at best). One feature at a time to sell more upgrades each year. Apple Watch should have been leading in the sensor department. ECG is still not available in a lot of countries.Going a step further, the Sense offers several health features that the Apple Watch does not yet have, including an electrodermal activity (EDA) sensor for stress management, a skin temperature sensor, and blood oxygen monitoring. (Apple Watch Series 6 models are rumored to support blood oxygen monitoring later this year.)
Well, if you do decide to give health data to any company, Google would probably be the best choice. First, they take good care of data (security). Secondly, if anyone could do something useful with this data, it would be Google.Now you can give even more health data to Google!
Interesting. Thank you for the info.That is incorrect. Google has entered into an agreement to acquire Fitbit but does not currently own them pending regulatory approval in various jurisdictions (the attainment of which will likely involve some data privacy concessions at least in the EU).
In any event, I think I'm more likely to trust my data to Google than I would be to Fitbit (which is saying a lot) and, regardless of who owns the company, I would never pay $330 for a Fitbit gadget.
See my comment above. The Google deal has not closed (and may never close).
Is the oximeter going to be accurate for dark-skinned people? Or will it have the same problems that other blood oximeters have?
Don't wait - - buy now!!!Apple you need to launch the next AW quickly as I am seriously considering this switch.
Still a problem with sophisticated devices, much less a consumer level add-on. My question remains the utility of oximetry reported every 5-10 minutes - or longer.
Apple you need to launch the next AW quickly as I am seriously considering this switch.
I tired a fitbit and it was good at auto detecting my bike riding.
the apps on the apple watch only get your heart rate every minute.
the gps and the speed and average speed and such were always off with my garmin bike computer. fiannly bought a garmin watch it gets accurate info about my ride far more info on heart rate and how hard your training and such.
And we'll get EDA sensor in 2021, skin temperature sensor in 2022 (at best). One feature at a time to sell more upgrades each year. Apple Watch should have been leading in the sensor department. ECG is still not available in a lot of countries.
it only works for running or walking. no clue why it is so limited. the fitbit could do a bunch of sports. but my garmin can only do running or walking. though there are a couple that can do multiple sports. the fitbit started having issues with getting my heart rate right.Apple added automatic workout detection in watchOS 5 (2018). It is pretty reliable and goes back to the beginning of its detected workout.
it only works for running or walking. no clue why it is so limited. the fitbit could do a bunch of sports. but my garmin can only do running or walking. though there are a couple that can do multiple sports. the fitbit started having issues with getting my heart rate right.
thr you go (G) I could live with it if it did not drain the batteries so much using it for cycling and it was not all that accurate and the heart rate every minute misses a lot if you sprint up a short hill. the garman is far more accurate sometime the apple watch has me at 70 flights of stairs when I may done 3 I think it gets some of it when cycling though not always.According to iMore, it automatically detects walking, running, elliptical, swimming and rowing. My bet is that if you wore it on your ankle, it would detect cycling.
The “sensor fusion” (silly name) functionality that works for dancing, might make cycling detection possible.
Most data can become actionable data. If you have a year archive of your daily heart rate or temperature or something else, you’ll notice the difference when suddenly it slightly raises or drops for no obvious reason. For example if your daily resting heart rate becomes higher, you’ll get a clue that something is off, you may need to check your health. Same for temperature or other data. You may not need to read or interpret some data yourself, but your doctor may find it useful.Apple does not add ”sensors” they add functionality. We will see new sensors when Apple has a way to get interesting actionable data from them.
Apple considered a skin temperature sensor for the Series 0, but could neither get around the variability nor figure out actionable data from it, so they did not include it (this was from a discussion with some of the designers at WWDC 2019