TL;DR Bare bones Apple Watch, basically just the sensors and algorithms, some ok screen; a FitBit but in Apple; a device just with the health improvement and life saving capabilities and nothing more, no fancy watchOS, extensive app support or hardware tweaks.
(Increased market share, more people in the ecosystem, great publicity, profit)
Whaddaya think?
Considering Apple Watch has so many capabilities directed towards making people either aware of aspects of their health or even detect them having fallen or being part of a car crash and its outstanding accuracy it’s really a great tool to have around to monitor your well-being.
Some folks repeatedly go that far to say it has the capability of saying one’s life build into it from the start, it has these at its core and everything else is just build around them.
I’ve been thinking about this ever since I first heard this some years ago and I have to agree, despite some people only viewing the Apple Watch as a fashion statement and what else, every single one of them one every persons wrist is actually a well designed tool to potential make peoples life’s healthier, if not actually saving it.
Considering that and that everything Apple has done to get to all the technical achievements that make up the Watch, they, Apple, know what they are doing and understand and always understood they were on a mission with it to make peoples life better.
But why then do they make it so difficult for more people to get their hands in these features?
Some folks don’t have the money to spend on a fully fletched Apple Watch with all its whistles and flashiness, nor are they interested in them, all they want is a wearable with the sensors and Apple algorithm magic that make give the Apple Watch its life saving capabilities.
So how about a Watch with all these sensors and Apple magic, but without much else? No high quality screen, no on board app functionality, no fancy crown or anything that isn’t technically necessary for it to do it’s magic.
Just a connection to your phone (with,) bluetooth, maybe WiFi and off you go.
Reduce the cost and price by half and give more people the opportunity to reap the benefit of monitoring their health to improve their lifes, but without all the extra stuff.
Bare bones. If Apple is really interested in helping as many people as they can with their tech, especially the Watch, why don’t they do this then? They’d make heaps of money, push others from the market almost entirely (I’m inclined to believe) get universal praise and tie even more people into their ecosystem.
And help millions of folks, too.
I don’t know, maybe I’m missing something here. I know that the RnD cost would be rather huge considering Apple is really into economy of scale and uniformity of products, but still I believe it would be great for their bottom line and their users.
What do you think?
(Increased market share, more people in the ecosystem, great publicity, profit)
Whaddaya think?
Considering Apple Watch has so many capabilities directed towards making people either aware of aspects of their health or even detect them having fallen or being part of a car crash and its outstanding accuracy it’s really a great tool to have around to monitor your well-being.
Some folks repeatedly go that far to say it has the capability of saying one’s life build into it from the start, it has these at its core and everything else is just build around them.
I’ve been thinking about this ever since I first heard this some years ago and I have to agree, despite some people only viewing the Apple Watch as a fashion statement and what else, every single one of them one every persons wrist is actually a well designed tool to potential make peoples life’s healthier, if not actually saving it.
Considering that and that everything Apple has done to get to all the technical achievements that make up the Watch, they, Apple, know what they are doing and understand and always understood they were on a mission with it to make peoples life better.
But why then do they make it so difficult for more people to get their hands in these features?
Some folks don’t have the money to spend on a fully fletched Apple Watch with all its whistles and flashiness, nor are they interested in them, all they want is a wearable with the sensors and Apple algorithm magic that make give the Apple Watch its life saving capabilities.
So how about a Watch with all these sensors and Apple magic, but without much else? No high quality screen, no on board app functionality, no fancy crown or anything that isn’t technically necessary for it to do it’s magic.
Just a connection to your phone (with,) bluetooth, maybe WiFi and off you go.
Reduce the cost and price by half and give more people the opportunity to reap the benefit of monitoring their health to improve their lifes, but without all the extra stuff.
Bare bones. If Apple is really interested in helping as many people as they can with their tech, especially the Watch, why don’t they do this then? They’d make heaps of money, push others from the market almost entirely (I’m inclined to believe) get universal praise and tie even more people into their ecosystem.
And help millions of folks, too.
I don’t know, maybe I’m missing something here. I know that the RnD cost would be rather huge considering Apple is really into economy of scale and uniformity of products, but still I believe it would be great for their bottom line and their users.
What do you think?
