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Apple Ditches Health-Monitoring Features from Watch

posted by janrinok on Wednesday February 18 2015, @11:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the tick-tock-sick-tock dept.

wirelessduck writes:

The Register reports: "Apple's bad hair day: Watch 'stripped' of health sensors":

Apple has ditched plans to make its new smart watch a health-monitoring device following problems with the technology and regulatory issues, according to reports.

Sources told The Wall Street Journal that some of the features were too complicated, while others would have prompted unwanted regulatory oversight. It said development of its health sensor technology has failed to meet standards, with inconsistency from sensor readings, arising from hairy arms or dry skin.

"Apple also experimented with ways to detect blood pressure or the amount of oxygen in the blood, but the results were inconsistent," said the paper.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday February 19 2015, @07:06PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday February 19 2015, @07:06PM (#147068) Journal

    I'm the guy who modded you troll.
     
    I disagree with the parent post as well but what exactly was trollish about it?

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  • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Thursday February 19 2015, @11:50PM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Thursday February 19 2015, @11:50PM (#147186) Journal

    Troll: "Its a cheap (as in work for hours if you want it) consumer thing, not a right enshrined by the founding fathers."
    Troll because it totally ignores the effect of the Third Party Doctrine which essentially decimates the warrant requirement of the 4th Amendment, something the founders did actually enshrine in the Bill of Rights, and does so in a totally airy lighthearted manner, as if fundamental rights are a joke.

    Moron: "They could sell the bulk data to the NSA until the cows come home and I'd still be happy."

    Troll: "If the NSA then invades my asshole because of it... well, I can stop wearing it."
    Invades my asshole? Again, making mockery of the serious ongoing relentless privacy violations of the Federal Gov't. Mocking the violation of fundamental human rights scores high on my trollometer.

    Troll: "Tin foil hats protect you from more hazards than actually exist."
    Need I explain? You're crazy if you believe the government will use data in nefarious ways because that hazard doesn't actually exist.

    So yeah, troll was warranted. Maybe more flamebait, but I tend to distinguish between those a bit more loosely than I perhaps should. If he had mentioned nazis or used flagrant ad hominems, I'd have probably choses flamebait over troll, but either way, he deserved it when I gave it, and he deserves it even now that it has been errored into "insightful".