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Tim Cook Teases the Future of Apple Watch: 'Think About the Amount of Sensors in Your Car'

Tim, please bring a blood pressure sensor to the Watch, it would be awesome! Also please run the authorization process to get the ECG function in Mexico 🙏🏻
 
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In 2020, a skin thermometer would be more practical and useful than blood oxygen data.

Instead we have SpO2 sensor in the new Series 6. Sigh..
 
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Would like to see an Apple Watch (GPS + Cellular) that does not have to be setup using an iPhone.
 
StuBeck said:
This is pretty embarrassing. Yes, going outside is a "window to the world", just like coming inside is "a window to yourself". I'm assuming he had some medicine before he made that point if you get my drift.
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Yes and I thought the outside was the world! Maybe it is Siri who is writing the copy?
 
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Deliro said:
Is your body vs your car even a topic for discussion? "and arguably, your body is much more important than your car." Arguably. Really.

The more I listen to cook the more I feel he’s a bit out of touch.
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Maybe TC can discuss the "your body vs. your car" in his next podcast?
 
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macdos said:
Apple has turned into a bunch of hypochondrical octogenarians… constant monitoring your vitals is a disease in itself.
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what an incredibly strange and frankly, irrelevant position to have. you must've given yourself the hardest pat on your back for that comment.
 
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iSayuSay said:
In 2020, a skin thermometer would be more practical and useful than blood oxygen data.

Instead we have SpO2 sensor in the new Series 6. Sigh..
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Actually it doesn’t have to be one or another, it could be both of them. The problem is that Apple releases drop to drop the health functions in a yearly basis. So maybe for Series 10 we could have all the health functions we would like to have.
 
iGüey said:
Actually it doesn’t have to be one or another, it could be both of them. The problem is that Apple releases drop to drop the health functions in a yearly basis. So maybe for Series 10 we could have all the health functions we would like to have.
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Apple intentionally withholds features to give folks a reason to upgrade to the next. It's obvious with their phones.
 
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Listening to Tim on this podcast kinda has me feeling like he‘s eyeing for retirement VERY soon (15mths). Just something in his voice and revisiting going out to a park to enjoy nature leaving technological items behind that ... the memory will stay with you long after than that perfect selfie.
 
rictus007 said:
A glucose sensor would be good
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It would be GREAT!

There are close to 160 million American’s alone affected by Diabetes ... my mother too so a glucose sensor and accurate measuring and food suggestions in an ecosystem like Health app would REALLY interest me personally, and the nail to switch my mom from Android to iOS/Watch OS.
 
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funny thing is the Apple Watch is so far ahead it’s nuts so really they don’t need to do loads to stay a mile ahead of the comp
 
Taj Armstrong said:
You eventually reach a point of diminishing returns with monitoring everything all the time... we could do an MRI scan of every healthy person every day and find something “wrong” with them. But does that really lead to a healthier life? Or does it, rather, lead to more unnecessary medical procedures, more reliance on pharmaceuticals, more time spent in the hospital, more fear and worry?
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Honestly, private healthcare loves this. I mean the private practice I'm currently at has targets and bonuses for number of test packages you can push. Non medics searching the internet for stuff after seeing health data is so lucrative.
 
Deliro said:
Apple intentionally withholds features to give folks a reason to upgrade to the next. It's obvious with their phones.
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That’s obvious if you have data to back it up. Until then I’ll file it as opinion piece.
Completely different product as well.
 
iGüey said:
Actually it doesn’t have to be one or another, it could be both of them. The problem is that Apple releases drop to drop the health functions in a yearly basis. So maybe for Series 10 we could have all the health functions we would like to have.
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Agreed, but if I have to pick a single improvement, thermometer would be my choice. I mean for COVID early detection, it's proved to be more useful.
 
beastforum said:
Has a love for nature yet is one of the biggest parts in making this world a technological cesspit. He’s deluded. At this rate, in 25yrs we will all be mixing with AI and slaves to the system. If he loves nature so much then leave Apple and encourage going back to the pre internet age. Ever since the internet has taken over, quality of life has gone down.
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Yet, you are here on the internet, on tech forums making comments...wow
 
Taj Armstrong said:
You eventually reach a point of diminishing returns with monitoring everything all the time... we could do an MRI scan of every healthy person every day and find something “wrong” with them. But does that really lead to a healthier life? Or does it, rather, lead to more unnecessary medical procedures, more reliance on pharmaceuticals, more time spent in the hospital, more fear and worry?
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It could possibly, you might be able to catch a problem in it's infancy and fix it before it becomes life threatening.
 
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Herrpod said:
Make one that isn't a stupid looking rectangle and I'll consider getting one.
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However, don't make it round as that its a waste of usable real estate for information! I did not buy it as a watch, I bought it as a data device. Before the AW I did not use a watch at all.
 
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subi257 said:
However, don't make it round as that its a waste of usable real estate for information! I did not buy it as a watch, I bought it as a data device. Before the AW I did not use a watch at all.
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Besides your valid points, digital watches generally don’t have to follow the form factor of traditional watches as there are no hands moving around and it’s really just a digital display for information.
 
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subi257 said:
Yet, you are here on the internet, on tech forums making comments...wow
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Just because I’m here replying, doesn’t mean I like it. Unfortunately now that the tech age has eroded normal social and economical normality, there’s no other choice. Doesn’t mean I can’t hope for what was before.
 
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