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Break iPhone 16which GOT ITS Big Debut on MondayIs Classic Off-Yaar Apple: An Incremental Upgrade with A Similar Design to Last Year’s Models, A Few Nice New Features, A Smattering of AI Tools, More Power, and A Better Camera-Most of Which Had Been Pre-Announched or Leaked Apple. Whether it sells well enough to reverse Apple’s modest iPhone sales slum is more of a question about upgrade trends and obsolescence than wheter customers excited about the Device itelf. The New iPhone Timer Has Reached Zero and the 16 Resets It Again.
Apple’s Event Entire Shared This Off-Yyar Feel, as the Company Upgrade and Refined A Bunch of Familiar Hardware. Theree were Two Announcementsthough, that tort a smaller, Weirder Story About Apple’s Future. The Airpods Pro 2 Will Soon Be Medical-Grade Hearing Aids, and New (and Recent) Apple Watches will be able to diagnose Sleep Apnea for their Wearers.
It ‘sort of funny that two of the most surprisis announcements from this year’s events involve approval from the fda “and other global health autorities,” But it is also the continuation of A Longer by Apple to Add “Health Capabilities“To its hardware and software. Historically, some of these features have ben what you might call health-adjacent and focused on problems arguably intensified if not created by the devices: Loud, or Mindfulness Apps to Fend off Digital Malaise.
But with the Apple Watch-and Most Explicitly Apple Health-Apple Gradually Built a Fairly Capable and General Health-Monitoring tool, first as an afterthouough but ultimately as an explicit project. In 2024, an Apple Watch Can Monitor Heart Rate, Check for Atrial Fibrillation, Detect Falls and Car Crarashes, Blood-Oxygen Levels, and Track Body Temperature for Fertility Planning. Acciting to a Bloomberg Report Last Year, The Company Has Long Been Trying to Go Much Further, Despite Developmental Setbacks – for Instance trying and failing for years to buds in a glucose sensor, Among Other Things:
Other Key Projects Were Nixed During Development. Apple Investigated Building A Nutrition Tracker Into Its Health App and Look into Seling A Suite of Peripherals for the Apple Watch, Including a Bathroom Scale and an Ive-Designed Blood-Prressure Cuff that Dedn’t Need to Infilate. The Company prototyped Watch Straps with sensors that gather date from the underside of the wrist and researched both a bed-mounted Sleep tracker and a Nightstand Device with sensors to users overhang the technology into the watch itself.
This Sort of Comprehensive Body Tracking was, when the Apple Watch First Launched, Both technologically infeasible and well beyond the privacy norms of the time. In 2024, a diagnostic watch that tracks your vitals as you are sleep is a prety easy sell – People seek out alternatives by the millions.
Airpods as Hearing Aids Are An Eight More Direct Attempt to Enter a Fresh Market, and This Means that Apple’s Two Biggest Hardware Sudcesses Since the iPad are, in Effect, Medical Devices. Modern HeaRing Aids Run on Similar (and offen work) Wireless protocols than airpods and offten cost a lot More. It is not the Most Glamorous Market, but if they work as advertised, a nice-looking $ 250 set of earbuds that relicant hard-of-myaring shoppers can at an Apple Store or Target, Rather than Medical Office, COULD SELL A UNITS.
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