If you need lots of new features for the sake of features Samsung will have you covered in a few weeks.
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What if this app is a companion to some Apple designed wearable device?
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iOS 8 'Healthbook' App Depicted in New Mockups
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If you need lots of new features for the sake of features Samsung will have you covered in a few weeks.
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What if this app is a companion to some Apple designed wearable device?
What data are you basing this claim on? While I agree that Apple should work on improving on iOS 7, there's nothing to suggest that mobile health is not a growing market.
I wonder if this app will be activated through the Settings, just like the Nike+ app. The iPhone 5S has a M7 processor, which will unlock some of the HealthBook features, but it appears you will need an iWatch to really take advantage of this app.
apple has been talking with the FDA
it's illegal to make an app like this without proper testing. the FDA will be on you like they were with 23 and Me
Food journaling is the weakness of all health apps, in my experience. Maybe Apple will figure out a streamlined way... possibly with assistance by Siri?
Let's look into a computer history book 50 years from now, shall we? The chapter entitled "Mobile Touch Computing: The First 10 Years" will be organized around 3 sections which outline the biggest changes that smartphones foisted upon humanity.
They will be
"Constant Connections: The Social Networks"
"You Are Here: The marriage of GPS and Google"
and
"Knowing Thyself: The Rise of Real-Time Health Monitors"
(Mobile payments and home automation will be mentioned but not earn their own full sections. And there will be a footnote on Angey Birds.)
Anyway, I find it funny that there are people here moaning about this and wondering why Apple is doing it. It's because it's going to be so important that any mobile computing company that ISN'T working on this should just pack it in and give up now.
They will be
"Constant Connections: The Social Networks"
"You Are Here: The marriage of GPS and Google"
and
"Knowing Thyself: The Rise of Real-Time Health Monitors"
(Mobile payments and home automation will be mentioned but not earn their own full sections. And there will be a footnote on Angey Birds.)
Anyway, I find it funny that there are people here moaning about this and wondering why Apple is doing it. It's because it's going to be so important that any mobile computing company that ISN'T working on this should just pack it in and give up now.
this is a joke
This kind of thing just make us feel like we are doing something good for our health. This app will be as used as that treadmill you bought 2 years ago and you never used for more that a month. Bring a banana to the gym? Do you need your cell phone to tell you that? If so, you should be checked for memory problems. Who has time to do cross fit? Real people with real work don't have time for this. USELESS!
Oh, and don't forget the fart alert...
This kind of thing just make us feel like we are doing something good for our health. This app will be as used as that treadmill you bought 2 years ago and you never used for more that a month. Bring a banana to the gym? Do you need your cell phone to tell you that? If so, you should be checked for memory problems. Who has time to do cross fit? Real people with real work don't have time for this. USELESS!
Oh, and don't forget the fart alert...
From the looks of the mockup it seems more like a way to log and organize their own data which probably wouldn't be within the scope of the FD&C Act. That being said, it would be in both the FDA and Apple's interest to at least confer with each other before adding anything too magical.
I'm sure a person of your expertise would appreciate the fact that this is a mockup with lots of placeholders where data could go and what could be displayed and no part of it has any basis of fact, yet.
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That's where "Cindy" comes in.
Another app I can't delete! Just what I wanted.
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It's like that OBD-II thing you plug into your car that's supposed to tell you how to save gasoline. Just a gimmick; nobody should really need it.
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It's like that OBD-II thing you plug into your car that's supposed to tell you how to save gasoline. Just a gimmick; nobody should really need it.
You've just reinforced the point of the product. They want to make people actually CARE about this information and make it a mainstream market.
Btw, haven't we heard that before? "Why should Apple enter the phone market when my Blackberry can already do everything a potential iPhone might do?"
Clearly Apple is envisioning a wearable that can do far more than what's currently on the market, all in one device. And make it a fun/intuitive experience that encourages people to care about this. I'd say the arena is ripe for innovation. While everyone is busy chasing a smart watch anticipating what they think an "iwatch" will do, Apple is heading in an entirely different direction and making something that has a purpose and makes sense
Remmember iOS 6 and how feature packed it was with passbook and everything ? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.
I'm a health nut and careless. Everything I need to remember is logged in my memory for doing it over and over already.
I'll place it in the Utilties folder and forget about it.
LAME
I'll place it in the Utilties folder and forget about it.
LAME
Unless counting my calorie output and making sure it hit a multiple of some magic number makes me live 10 years longer, no, I really couldn't care less. My great grandmother lived for 100 years without this junk.
For people that care about their health this could be pretty amazing. Body builders and fitness people it would be awesome if done right.
"Normal" people that don't care about this stuff, but it's a huge industry and will be welcomed. 10 years in the gym now I'd love a smart watch that can count heart rate and calories burned. So I'm excited for this.