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To: spitsong who wrote (14)	6/17/2014 12:45:18 PM
From: pyslent	Respond to of 157

A lot of what you ask for can be done today with the right iPhone app. Not sure how a blood pressure sensor would work, but heart rate sending has been done with the watch form factor. I imagine it would be relatively easy for an iWatch to keep track of location data and biometrics for syncing back to an iPhone Helathbook if you prefer to work out without the phone. Speaking of iDevices working together, whenever I use my iPhone as a hotspot for my iPad, I wonder why the iPhone does not pass GPS location information to the iPad. Hopefully, this is one of the unannounced features of Continuity in iOS8.

To: spitsong who wrote (14)	6/20/2014 12:52:45 AM
From: spitsong	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 157

Others are starting to figure it out + iWatch teasage First, iWatch rumors: This image is older but the form factor concept is thought-provoking: pretty much the Nike Fuelband plus a vertical slice of an iPhone display, curved. This seems clunkier than I think Jony would want, and I really don't think a slightly slimmed-down version would work for fashion-conscious women. Plus I don't think it would include a phone app, at least not for awhile :-) Forbes \| Apple 180: The iWatch Is At The Center Of A Whirlwind 6 Months For Cook And Company And it is sooooo not going to be this size: The Latest iWatch Rumor Says It Will Be Big, Really Big Note that Apple was granted a patent for a " Seamlessly embedded heart rate monitor" "on an electronic device" a few months ago. But add a blood pressure monitor to a good (SMALLER!) form factor, and we have a compelling device here. It should include an option to display a mode difficult to distinguish from one or more tasteful analog watches, IMO. On to the subject of this post, "Others are starting to figure it out", which I think is where the real action is. On HomeKit, MacWorld concludes, just like I did with the "headless home server" I urged Apple to build 10+ years ago, that Apple's future hardware hub already exists, and it is named AppleTV: Apple's HomeKit hub may already be in your house. Gizmodo has a similar take: Apple TV Could Finally Unlock Its Full Potential This Year. On to HealthKit. From Forbes and a guy NOT named Philip Elmer-DeWitt comes this background: The Revolution Hidden In The Apple Health Kit. It has been 20+ years since I've worked in the health care industry (as opposed to the fitness industry, which I left 11 years ago), so this fellow (Haydn Shaughnessy) fleshes the issues out better than I could, but he was back on the track today, perhaps also answering pyslent's question on this board about how one could "see Apple monetizing the connective tissue between" the sort of devices I see as inevitable in Apple's coming Internet Of Things in his article Apple Health Kit As A Major Platform Innovation. Which echoes the whole theme I set up this board for, which I see as "build it and they will come", as long as "it" is excellent, which Apple has a pretty good track record for. Others will be better than I at seeing the financial implications of building ecosystem awesomeness, no doubt ... I'm just a software guy. Finally, iCloud. Quoting an article today on Cult Of Mac, Apple just obsoleted the Mac and nobody noticed: Back at WWDC 2011, Steve Jobs said this: "We’re going to demote the PC and the Mac to just be a device. We’re going to move your hub, the center of your digital life, into the cloud." Sure, this article is mostly rehash, but this brings me back 15 years when I first heard a friend talk about how he and Steve disagreed about a thing, and Steve turned out to be wrong. But by then my friend was gone. Thing is, Steve wasn't wrong, and my friend knew it. He was just … early.