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Today there remains a sense – both inside Apple and in the broader world of public health – of unfulfilled potential. The company’s effort to weave health monitoring and disease prevention into its bestselling devices has yielded breakthroughs, but the strategy has also been short-circuited by philosophical disagreements, a culture of conservatism and technological realities.
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The tech giant has long focused on products aimed at the healthy. That could be about to change.
Apple Watches might get another health upgrade in 2024, with new detection sensors for common conditions.
The company is working on big things, but employees disagree over whether they should be serving people who are healthy or sick.
Four years after the quiet arrival of Avolonte, Tim Cook stood in the same packed auditorium where his predecessor, Steve Jobs, unveiled the original Macintosh and introduced the Apple Watch.