Re:Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Wat...
by ggreer on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @01:36PM
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That's the fault of Australia, not Apple[1]:
> "If Apple claims the ECG function in its Apple Watch has therapeutic benefit for wearers, the watch would need to be included in the [Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods] in order to be legally supplied in Australia," a TGA spokesperson said to Gizmodo Australia in a statement.
This could be fixed if Australia allowed unapproved devices to be sold with a warning instead of outright banning them.
> "If Apple claims the ECG function in its Apple Watch has therapeutic benefit for wearers, the watch would need to be included in the [Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods] in order to be legally supplied in Australia," a TGA spokesperson said to Gizmodo Australia in a statement.
This could be fixed if Australia allowed unapproved devices to be sold with a warning instead of outright banning them.
1. https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2019/09/why-apple-watch-series-5-...